Following training , Pryor joined the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania , and after September 11 attacks happen , he joined the EMS personnel . In 2006 , Pryor served as trauma surgeon for the 344th Combat Support Hospital in Abu Ghraib . Following first deployment , he was practicing Arabic and writing articles for '' The Philadelphia Inquirer '' and '' The Washington Post '' . During his second tour of duty in 2008 , Major Pryor was serving with the United States Army Reserves ' 1st Medical Detachment Unit from Fort Totten , New York , when on Christmas Day an enemy 's mortar which was randomly fired at the Mosul Air Base , killed him . He is buried in Colestown Cemetery , Cherry Hill Township
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
John Pryor (physician)