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Article: STATE'S TROOPS LAMENT LOSS OF COMRADE.(FRONT)(SERIES: Report from Iraq)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- April 16, 2004
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Byline: Lee Sensenbrenner
BAGHDAD -- Members of the Wisconsin National Guard 32nd military police company held each other and sobbed as they remembered their fellow soldier, Michelle Witmer, at a service here.
"People tell me that she did not die in vain, but I struggle with that concept," Spc. Shizuko Jackson of Milwaukee said to hundreds of troops who gathered Thursday at a compound near the Tigris River. "She was just 20 years old, and had so much to live for."
He noted, "We will remember how much she loved the Iraqi children, the Iraqi people. Those who a lot of us view as the enemy, she helped."
The 32nd MP unit from Wisconsin, ...