Basile’s Jeremy Keith Ivory is pictured standing fifth from right with the 3rd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment while stationed in Iraq in 2005.
By: REBECCA CHAISSON LSN Editor Twenty years ago, the explosions lighting up Jeremy Ivory's night sky weren't Independence Day fireworks, and the Basile native wasn't celebrating freedom - the 25-year-old national guardsman was in Baghdad, fighting for it. Right out of high school, Ivory joined the National Guard's 256th Tiger Brigade hoping the GI Bill would allow him to continue his education an…
