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Fort Lewis mourns its dead

May-27-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

Soldiers mourned deeply, remembered fondly

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BY CHRISTIAN HILL, THE OLYMPIAN

FORT LEWIS — Sunlight filtered into the chapel, but it couldn’t penetrate the pall over those gathered Thursday to mourn the deaths of three more soldiers from the Army post.

Family members and friends dressed in black to grieve for Spc. Tyler Creamean, Sgt. Benjamin Morton and 1st Lt. Aaron Seesan, the 58th, 59th and 60th Fort Lewis soldiers killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion began.

The three Stryker soldiers died in two attacks Sunday, making it the deadliest day for Fort Lewis soldiers since a Dec. 21 mess hall suicide bombing killed 14 U.S. service members, including six from the post.

“There have been too many memorial services lately,” noted Maj. David Shoffner, a brigade chaplain. [...]

The article continues with excerpts from remarks delivered at the memorial service.

Follow this link to read the memorial address to be delivered in Mosul tomorrow by LTC Kurilla, Commander of the Deuce Four.


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