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[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1481595364791{margin-right: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1481600029726{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Lance Corporal Nicholas R. Anderson easily made friends and enjoyed the world’s challenges.  Even as a youngster he enjoyed being outdoors with his dad and uncles hunting and fishing; and liked to work out and lift weights.    He…

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1481595364791{margin-right: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1481600029726{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Lance Cpl. Ryan J. Nass, 21, of Franklin, Wis.; was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii; He died Sept. 3 of a non-hostile gunshot wound at…

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1481595364791{margin-right: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1481600029726{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Specialist Kyle Matthew Hemauer, age 21 of Chilton died on May 23, 2005 in Zabul, Afghanistan while serving his country with the 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, Virginia Army National Guard, of Manassas, VA. He…

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[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1481595364791{margin-right: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1481600029726{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Spc. Robert J. Cook of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin was born to Sandra L. Selheim and Douglas Cook and was kind, tough as nails, a leader, and a hero to the service of this country. He leaves behind his…

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1481595364791{margin-right: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1481600029726{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] Spooner, Wis. — Dan Henry Gabrielson, 40, was remembered as a good man, a great father, and caring husband. His 20-year-old daughter Vanessa and others spoke to reporters before the service. Vanessa talked about the last time…

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1481595364791{margin-right: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1481600029726{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Maj. Mathew E. Schram, the fifth of six children of Earl and Sarah Schram, always wanted to be a soldier, said his older sister, Susan Kuske. He joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater…

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1481595364791{margin-right: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1481600029726{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] BEAVER DAM — Barely a week after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, U.S. Marine Sgt. Kirk Straseskie penned a letter to his fellow soldiers voicing expectations of war and the possibility of dying. The envelope said…

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1481595364791{margin-right: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1481600029726{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Army Spc. Ryan P. Long was a fourth-generation soldier. He joined the Army after graduating in 1999 from Seaford (Del.) High School, where he was active in the Junior ROTC. He was deployed twice to Afghanistan. Long, 21,…

[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1481595364791{margin-right: 10% !important;margin-left: 10% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1481600029726{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]PFC Anthony A. Gaunky, of Sparta, Wisconsin, always called Alex by his friends and family. He spent his early years in Mundelein, Illinois, before moving to Wisconsin after third grade. A happy teenager, he played the French Horn…