One of these guys was #1671 and the other #1672.http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/11828449.htmRACINE, Wis. - An Army tank driver who joined the military to get experience driving big equipment was killed in Iraq on his second tour of duty and two weeks before he was to come home to visit, his father said Monday.
Spc. Eric Poelman, 21, of Racine, was killed Sunday, his father, Matt Poelman, said in a telephone interview from his home in Longview, Texas. The father and mother, who moved to Texas about a year ago, were awaiting word from the military on exactly what happened, other than he was engaged in battle, the father said.
"Thank the Lord we were able to talk with him on Saturday," the father said. "He had experienced the atrocities of war, just difficult things. We had pretty good confirmation from him that he was ready for the Lord and he knew where he was going if he were to pass on. That is some great comfort to his mother and I."
Poelman, who was married about a year ago, is the 38th Wisconsin soldier or Marine killed in Iraq.
http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=84536Former Oklahoman Killed In IraqA soldier from Oklahoma makes the ultimate sacrifice.
Colonel Ted Westhusing was killed in action in Iraq Sunday. The military hasn't released details of his death yet, but family members in Tulsa have been notified that Westhusing was killed. He was a 1979 graduate of Jenks High School and went on to graduate 3rd in his class at West Point.
The 45 year old husband and father of three, was a professor at West Point, but volunteered to go to Iraq around Christmastime. He was a Ranger and paratrooper with 115 jumps.
Westhusing's family in Tulsa says he'll be buried at West Point.
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