Michael S. Weger
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Age: 30
From: Rochester, N.Y.
Assigned to the 20th Engineer Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Spc. Michael S. Weger was killed Oct. 12 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol vehicle in Baghdad. Also
Died: October 12, 2004
Miss. native killed in Iraq ‘never shirked’ from duties
By Holbrook Mohr
Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — Spc. Michael S. Weger, a Pascagoula native killed in Iraq last week, is remembered by his family as a good son and loving father who liked camping and rarely met a stranger.
Weger, 30, died Oct. 12 along with two other soldiers from the 20th Engineer Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, when an improvised explosive device hit the Humvee they were driving in Iraq. The unit is based in Fort Hood, Texas.
“He was a good little guy. He never met a stranger — a really outgoing, really good father,” said Sonya Gentry, who married Weger’s cousin 12 years ago. “He had a little boy, 5 years old. Damion is his name. He was a really good dad, good son, good brother. He was just an all-around nice guy.”
Gentry, speaking to The Associated Press from her home in Moss Point, said she saw Weger last year when he returned to...