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Fort Lewis service honors four soldiers

Jun- 6-2007 » Filed Under: 4/2 SBCT

MICHAEL GILBERT; The News Tribune

Fort Lewis held another ceremony Tuesday to remember four soldiers killed in Iraq: two combat veterans who helped build a new brigade from scratch, and a pair of young infantrymen who joined the Army in a time of war.

About 300 soldiers, family members and others turned out at the Soldiers Field House to pay respects to Staff Sgts. David C. Kuehl and Kristopher A. Higdon, Cpl. Mathew P. LaForest and Pfc. Robert A. Worthington.

All four were assigned to the brigade’s 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment. All were killed in Taji, about 10 miles north of Baghdad, in three attacks in the week before Memorial Day.

Maj. Chad Sundem, the rear detachment commander with the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, noted the timing.

“The talk over that Memorial Day weekend of sacrifice and selfless service can never be so vivid as it is right now,” he said Tuesday.

The brigade has endured a difficult first month in Iraq, with 10 soldiers killed in action in Baghdad and in Diyala province, northeast of the capital.

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