SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan soldier who survived a roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan but then died in a West Coast car accident has been buried in Bay City.
The Saginaw News reports that. 21-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Roger Scherf Jr. was buried Saturday with full military honors.
Scherf grew up in Saginaw Township. He died March 20 from injuries suffered in an auto accident in Spanaway, Wash., outside Tacoma.
He was driving an armored vehicle during an October 2009 patrol in Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province when it rolled over a land mine. Seven members of his rifle squad and an interpreter were killed. Scherf was the only survivor.
Roger Scherf Sr. says his son suffered brain trauma, a punctured lung, and nerve damage in his back and neck from the explosion.
