Brian Naseman
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Age: 36
From: New Bremen, Ohio
Assigned to the 108th Forward Support Company, attached to 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry, 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Sussex, Wis.
Incident: Army Sgt. 1st Class Brian Naseman died May 22 in Taji, Iraq of a noncombat-related incident.
Died: May 22, 2009
Wife remembers fallen husband
The Associated Press
CALEDONIA, Wis. — A Racine soldier who was killed in Iraq last week was always a comic, the life of the party whose two young sons adored and idolized him, his wife said.
Sgt. 1st Class Brian K. Naseman died May 22 of injuries described as noncombat-related, according to the Department of Defense.
Peggy Naseman said their boys, ages 9 and 7, wanted to be just like their father.
“They wanted to be career military just like their dad,” Naseman said Monday. “They knew that what he was doing was a good cause.”
Now they don’t understand why he won’t be coming home, she said.
Brian Naseman, 36, was assigned to the 108th Forward Support Company, attached to 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry, 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team out of Sussex.
He died in a rural region 20 miles north of Baghdad, where he was...