Dustin C. Fisher
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Age: 22
From: Fort Smith, Ark.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 76th Field Artillery, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Incident: Army Spc. Dustin C. Fisher was killed May 24 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee in Baghdad. Also
Died: May 24, 2005
Van Buren soldier killed in Iraq
By Aaron Sadler
Southwest (Ark.) Times Record
A newly wed Van Buren soldier was killed in Iraq on Tuesday when a car bomb exploded near the vehicle he was driving, family members said.
Spc. Dustin Fisher’s parents received word of his death from military officials Wednesday. Fisher, 22, married his wife, Alicia, just days before his deployment early this year.
“He was just really happy,” said his mother, Brenda Fisher. “He was so happy to be married and have a wife.”
The Department of Defense had not released information about Fisher’s death late Wednesday. Family members said Fisher was one of the three soldiers killed when a bomb exploded next to their convoy.
His father, Waldo Fisher, said his son was part of a team escorting a high-ranking Iraqi official.
Waldo Fisher, a civics teacher at Darby Junior High School, is the president of the local chapter of...