Andrew L. Bossert
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Age: 24
From: Fountain City, Wis.
Assigned to the 44th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Howze, Korea
Incident: Army Sgt. Andrew L. Bossert was killed March 7 when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his screening area in Ramadi, Iraq. Also
Died: March 07, 2005
Soldier from Fountain City killed in Iraq
Associated Press
FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. — An Army sergeant from western Wisconsin who wanted to become an architect one day was killed in Iraq, his mother said Tuesday.
Sgt. Andrew Bossert, 24, of Fountain City, was killed Monday after a car exploded near him, Diane Bossert said.
“We don’t really know a whole of lot of the details yet. Basically, all they’ve told us was he was at a checkpoint, a car went through the checkpoint and it blew up,” Diane Bossert said.
Her son was the 35th Wisconsin soldier killed in Iraq since the U.S. military invaded the country almost two years ago.
Bossert enlisted in the Army five years ago after graduating from Fountain City High School, was assigned to an engineering company and was shipped to Iraq last August, his mother said. He had been stationed in South Korea for 2½ years before he was assigned to Iraq, she said.
Bossert,...