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Donnell A. Hamilton, age 20, from Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.
Date of death: Thursday, July 24, 2014
Death details: Died at Brooke Army Medical Center, Joint Base San Antonio, Texas from an illness sustained in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Robert M. Rieckhoff, age 26, from Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kenosha county.
Parents: Stepfather Roland Garwood and Barbara Garwood
Children: Tyler, 8; Katrina, 4.
Service era: Iraq
Schools: Tremper High (2002)
Military history: 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, New York. Enlisted 2002.
Date of death: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Death details: Died in Baghdad, Iraq of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with rocket-propelled grenade fire while he was on guard duty in a tower.
Source: Department of Defense, Milwaukee Journal Sentinnel
Timothy Robert Hanson, age 23, from Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kenosha county.
Parents: Susan Hanson
Spouse: None
Children: None
Service era: Iraq
Schools: Wisconsin Luthern High (1996); Indian Trail Academy (2003), Northern Michigan University, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Military history: Hhc, 1St Battalion, 15Th Infantry, Fort Benning, Ga
Date of death: Monday, January 7, 2008
Death details: Salmon Pak, Iraq
Cemetery: Sunset Ridge Memorial Park
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
William A. Strehlow, age 27, from Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kenosha county.
Spouse: Carolyn Strehlow (Vandervelde)
Children: Tiffany Strehlow, 8; Bill Strehlow Jr., 7; Cory Strehlow, 2.
Service era: Gulf War
Date of death: Sunday, February 24, 1991
Death details: Died while trying to dismantle a bomb at a captured enemy air base.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Gulf War Chronicles, Chicago Tribune
James Michael Schriver from Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kenosha county.
Parents: Arnold Scriver
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, September 9, 1970
Source: National Archives, Kenosha News (1970)
John Paul Becker, age 22, from Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kenosha county.
Parents: Edward N. Becker
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Bradford High (1956), UW Parkside
Military history: Company B, 4th Battalion, Americal Division’s 31st Infantry
Date of death: Saturday, May 2, 1970
Death details: Killed in Vietnam while leading a combat patrol when his unit came under mortar attack.
Source: National Archives, Kenosha News (1970)
Douglas Ray Roest, age 19, from Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kenosha county.
Spouse: Linda (Wellman) Roest
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Bradford High
Military history: Company A, 1st Batallion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade
Date of death: Friday, March 13, 1970
Death details: On his first wedding anniversary, Dougals was on a military mission in Vietnam when the area came under rocket attack.
Source: National Archives, Kenosha News (1970)
Eugene Leroy Burbey, age 22, from Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kenosha county.
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: 35th Infantry Regiment
Date of death: Monday, September 22, 1969
Death details: Died from Malaria at Walter Reed.
Cemetery: Saint John’s, Kenosha
Source: National Archives, 35th Infantry Regiment Association
Casimir P. Lobacz, age 25, from Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kenosha county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Wednesday, September 27, 1944
Death details: On March 2, 2022, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Staff Sergeant Casimir P. Lobacz, missing from World War II. Staff Sergeant Lobacz entered the U.S. Army from Wisconsin and was a member of the 11th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division. On September 27, 1944, elements of the 5th Infantry Division began an assault on the heavily defended Fort Driant several miles south of Metz, France, as part of Operation THUNDERBOLT. German forces rebuffed this first assault on September 27, and SSG Lobacz was killed in action during the fighting. His body could not be recovered at the time of his loss, and investigations of the fort once it was captured in December of 1944 also failed to locate his remains. On June 7, 1945, French de-miners discovered the remains of a U.S. Army soldier near Fort Driant. The remains were turned over to U.S. Graves Registration Company; however, the remains could not be identified at the time and were buried as unknowns at the U.S. Military Cemetery in St. Avold, France. Recent investigations by DPAA historians and anthropologists determined that these unknown remains were likely associated with one of three members of the 5th Infantry Division. In June of 2021, this unknown set of remains was disinterred and accessioned into the DPAA laboratory in Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, for identification. Laboratory analysis established them as those of SSG Lobacz.
Cemetery: Lorraine American
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, findagrave.com
Paul Edward Herrick, age 19, from Kenosha County Kenosha, Wisconsin .
Parents: Ruth L. Herrick
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Honolulu Star Advertiser (2016),