An Army officer from Wisconsin who was among five American soldiers killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan was remembered Thursday as a man who had been an average student high school, but found his niche in the military.
Growing up in rural Wisconsin Jesse Thiry was an typical all-American. He grew up on his family’s farm, one of eight children, and was engaged to marry his high school sweetheart. Thiry was a graduate of Luxemburg-Casco High School, where Continue reading →
Lance Corporal Jacob Alexander Meinert USMC was killed in action Jan. 10, 2010, in Bastion, Afghanistan.
He was born on June 24, 1989, in Racine. He attended Red Apple Elementary School and Jerstad Agerholm Middle School in Racine before moving Continue reading →
Private First Class Sean Michael Schneider was from Janesville, Wisconsin. He graduated from Janesville Craig High School in 2000 and worked for a concrete company, but wanted to do more. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he decided Continue reading →
Army Staff Sergeant Nickolas A. Mueller died on October 26, 2009 of wounds suffered when the MH-47 helicopter he was aboard crashed in Darreh-ye Bum, Afghanistan. Â He assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Regiment (Airborne), Hunter Continue reading →
A soldier everyone in Columbus knew as Hans looked forward to making a difference in Iraq.
“Since he was a young man, he always lived his life surrounded with discipline,” said Travis DeBussey, a friend from their days together at Continue reading →
A Wisconsin Army National Guard soldier from Rhinelander was killed and seven other Guard soldiers were injured Thursday in Afghanistan when they were attacked by enemy forces using rocket-propelled grenade fire.
When Spc. Bert E. Hoyer enlisted in the Army Reserves, he was looking for a way to pay for college. But he discovered he liked the reserves and talked about re-enlisting. “He was proud of what he was doing, and Continue reading →
A Wisconsin soldier from Lena who specialized in civil affairs was killed after only two weeks in Iraq when an improvised explosive device struck her convoy, authorities and family members said Tuesday.
