Article: MEMORIES OF DAD, COLLEAGUES IN IRAQ SUSTAIN THIS SOLDIER.(FRONT)(SERIES: Report from Iraq)

Byline: Lee Sensenbrenner

BAGHDAD -- When he was a sophomore in high school about six years ago, Sgt. Bart Burdick's mother died of a brain aneurysm, and he went to Greenfield to live with his father, a retired Milwaukee County bus driver.

The change of schools was welcome, he said, and it was a happy time for him.

"Not one point was there ever something bad happening there," Burdick said as he showed family photos in a covered passageway outside the main clinic of the Wisconsin National Guard 118th medical battalion.

"That's when I had my first girlfriend and stuff. It was a whole different -- from being rejected and looked at with ...

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