Theodore S. Westhusing
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Age: 44
From: Dallas
Assigned to the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. serving with the Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq
Incident: Army Col. Theodore S. Westhusing died June 5 of non-combat-related injuries in Baghdad.
Died: June 05, 2005
West Point professor dies in Iraq
By Shaun Schafer
Associated Press
TULSA, Okla. — A West Point professor who volunteered to serve in Iraq has been killed in action, family members said Monday.
Col. Ted S. Westhusing, 45, was killed in action on Sunday, family members said Monday. They did not release specifics on how he was killed. Family members received official notification of the death from the military late Sunday.
Westhusing, a 1979 graduate of Jenks High School, had doctorates in Russian, philosophy and military strategy, his eldest brother Tim Westhusing of Broken Arrow, said Monday.
“He wanted to go over there and make things better,” Tim Westhusing said. “He has a wife and three children. He didn’t have to go.
“This is the worst of all possible results.”
His mother, Terry Clark, of Tulsa, said he gave up “the good life” of a full-time teaching job to go to Iraq because he felt it was...