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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] Sherri Scott knew a good man when she saw one. “The night I met Josh I told my girlfriends, ‘I’m going to marry that man,’” she said. “They all laughed. Three years later we were married.” Joshua…

[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]In Iraq, Mark Maida kept a rosary, a baptismal ring, a pendant of heaven, a St. Christopher’s medal _ more instruments of faith, a minister cracked, than Pope Benedict XVI. But Maida was no saint, his brother 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]The family of an Army paratrooper who was killed in action in Afghanistan last week has released a statement. The Department of Defense said Army Sgt. 1st Class Matthew I. Leggett died during combat in Kabul on Aug.…

[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]Andrew Bossert wanted to build a house for his wife and planned to use his Army benefits to pay for college and study architecture. Bossert, 24, of Fountain City, Wis., was killed March 7 when a car exploded…

[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]MILWAUKEE (WITI) The Department of Defense has listed the death of 19-year-old Lance Corporal Jeremiah Collins, Jr. of Milwaukee as non-hostile on the Operation Enduring Freedom casualties website. Collins died on Friday, October 4 while supporting combat operations…

[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] ORFORDVILLE – Cpl. Benjamin Harold Neal, age 21, of Fort Bragg N.C./Orfordville, was reborn on April 25th, 2012, in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan while proudly serving his country. Benjamin was born at St. Clare Hospital in Monroe, to…

[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]When he called home from Iraq, Donald Eacho left long messages on the answering machine, taking care to pause so his 5-year-old son could talk back to it. The little boy didn’t know the voice was recorded. Now…

[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]Wisconsin military police officer Staff Sgt. Jesse Grindey of Hazel Green dies in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Jesse Grindey, 30, of Hazel Green died Monday in Kandahar province, according to the DOD. Grindey, who joined the Army 10 years…

[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]MAYVILLE-HORICON – 1LT David A. Johnson, U.S. Army, 24, of rural Mayville-Horicon, died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, serving in the U.S. Army in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He was born on Nov. 28, 1987, in…

[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]When he was a Boy Scout, Travis M. Wichlacz was nearly unbeatable at one test of strength and guile: the greased watermelon contest, which he won four years in a row. “They would throw the greased watermelon out…