Michael L. Burbank
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Age: 34
From: Bremerton, Wash.
Assigned to the 1st Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, Fort Lewis, Wash.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Michael L. Burbank was killed Oct. 11 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Stryker military vehicle in Mosul, Iraq.
Died: October 11, 2004
Suicide bombing takes life of Washington soldier
Associated Press
BREMERTON, Wash. — Staff Sgt. Michael Burbank, due to return home in two weeks from a deployment to Iraq, has died in a suicide truck bombing in the city of Mosul.
“I’m missing him a lot and I’m incredibly proud,” his 29-year-old wife Shawna said late Tuesday.
The couple had planned trips to Disneyland and British Columbia to celebrate his homecoming, said her father, Brant Culley of Federal Way. “Now, the trips have all been canceled.”
Burbank was a good husband and friend, and loved to hunt, fish and hike, Culley said.
“He never got to be a father,” Culley said, adding, “We’re just numb.”
Burbank, 34, died Monday when a suicide bomber detonated a pickup truck full of explosives near his Stryker vehicle. Nine others were wounded in the explosion, at least three of them seriously, the Army said.
Burbank was assigned to the 1st...