Andrew Halverson
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Age: 19
From: Grant, Wis.
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Pfc. Andrew Halverson was killed Oct. 9 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: October 09, 2004
Wisconsin Marine killed in Iraq
Associated Press
MUSCODA, Wis. — The Department of Defense said a Marine from southwest Wisconsin has died while serving in Iraq, becoming the 22nd soldier from Wisconsin to die in combat in Iraq.
Pfc. Andrew Halverson, 19, of the village of Muscoda, died as a result of enemy action in Anbar province, authorities said Sunday.
Anthony Broadbent, president of the southwestern Wisconsin village of Muscoda, said Halverson graduated from the local high school with Broadbent’s daughter last year.
“It’s sad that we had to lose somebody that young over there,” he said.
Broadbent’s daughter, Rebecca, told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Halverson seemed confident after learning he was headed to Iraq.
“He didn’t really say much at all,” Broadbent said. “He just said: ‘I’m going over to Iraq.’ ”
She said the tall, muscular, brown-haired Halverson, a former Riverdale...