
NORTH JUDSON, Ind. — Friends and family members mourned a soldier from northern Indiana who died in Iraq, while they awaited results of the military investigation into his death.
Spc. Michael J. Wiesemann was honored with a 21-gun salute at his burial Wednesday in Highland Cemetery. Earlier, a funeral service was held at a packed funeral home in North Judson.
The Rev. Heath Hiatt, pastor of Kankakee Valley Christian Center, read a letter from one of Wiesemann’s friends recalling him as a nature-loving teen who kept a duck call in his pocket and sounded it wherever and whenever the mood struck.
Wiesemann, 20, died May 29 at Quyarrah Air Base of non-combat related...