Kurt D. Schamberg
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Age: 26
From: Euclid, Ohio
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.
Incident: Army Sgt. Kurt D. Schamberg was killed May 20 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee in Baghdad.
Died: May 20, 2005
Ohio soldier dies in Iraq blast
Associated Press
GILLETTE, Wyo. — The mother of a soldier killed by a roadside blast in Iraq said her son had only three weeks left on his second tour and had planned to visit Wyoming, where he loved to four-wheel in the mountains.
Sgt. Kurt Schamberg, 26, died last Thursday near the Abu Ghraib prison. He had been injured once before in the leg.
“The hours. I was counting the hours,” his mother, Pam Lindsay, of Gillette, said. “We had that close call and we really felt the opportunity had knocked and he had escaped.”
Lindsay had thought it would only be a matter of weeks before her son would be in the Big Horn Mountains, covering acre after acre of forest on a four-wheeler. They had planned the trip months ago, long before Schamberg left in January for his second tour in Iraq.
When he returned, he wanted to visit his brother in Denver. Then he was going to come to Gillette...