Donald W. Eacho
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Age: 38
From: Black Creek, Wis.
Assigned to the 1st Infantry Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, Camp Hovey, Korea
Incident: Army Sgt. 1st Class Donald W. Eacho was killed March 4 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol in Ramadi, Iraq. Also
Died: March 04, 2005
Wisconsin relatives mourn New York soldier
Associated Press
KENOSHA, Wis. — Wisconsin relatives said Monday they are mourning the death of a 17-year Army veteran in Iraq last week.
Diane Eacho, who lives in nearby Racine, told the Kenosha News she was informed Friday that her son, Staff Sgt. Donald Eacho, 38, died that day when the vehicle he was in hit a roadside bomb near Ramadi.
Her son, who grew up in Kenosha before attending high school in the Wisconsin community of Seymour, lived in Watertown, N.Y., with his wife and two sons, she said. She said he was stationed in Iraq since August, and she last saw him in the fall when he was home at Thanksgiving.
“He liked what he was doing,” his sister, Kathy Whiteside of Kenosha, told the newspaper. “He thought of his guys before he thought of himself. When they were in Iraq, he would not give himself e-mail until his guys had e-mail — they were his family,...
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