Peter D. Wagler
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Age: 18
From: Partridge, Kan.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Pfc. Peter D. Wagler died Jan. 23 of wounds sustained that day when an improvised explosive device detonated near his M1A2 Abrams tank during patrol operations in Baghdad. Also killed was Staff Sgt. Lance M. Chase.
Died: January 23, 2006
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Kansan killed in Iraq left letter expressing no regrets
PARTRIDGE, Kan. — A Kansas soldier killed in Iraq this week had dreamed of military service since he was a little boy and left his family a message that he would have no regrets if he didn’t make it back.
Pfc. Peter D. Wagler, 18, and another soldier died Monday in Baghdad when a bomb exploded near the tank they were riding in. Both were with a unit based at Fort Hood, Texas.
Wagler, who enlisted in the Army in September of 2004, arrived in the Middle East only last month.
He was the fifth of eight children of David and Trish Wagler, raised on a farm near Partridge in Reno County. On Tuesday, the family got word of his death and read a letter he had given to his parents when he was home for Thanksgiving, with instructions that it be opened only if he didn’t return.
“He said he had no regrets,” said his father, a financial planner....
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Prayers & Messages
into the house and gate of heaven,
to enter into that gate, and dwell in that house where there shall be
no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light;
no noise nor silence, but one equal music;
no fears nor hopes, but one equal possession;
no ends nor beginnings, but one equal eternity;
in the habitation of thy glory and dominion,
world without end. Amen.