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Matthew Soper
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Name: Army Sgt. Matthew Soper
Age: 25
From: Kalamazoo, Mich., died June 6 in Bayji, Iraq,
Assigned to the 1461st Transportation Company (Combat Heavy Equipment), Michigan Army National Guard, Jackson, Mich.
Incident: Army Sgt. Matthew Soper died June 6 in Bayji, Iraq, of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1461st Transportation Company (Combat Heavy Equipment), Michigan Army National Guard, Jackson, Mich.
Died: June 06, 2007
Two soldiers with Michigan ties killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
Age: 25
From: Kalamazoo, Mich., died June 6 in Bayji, Iraq,
Assigned to the 1461st Transportation Company (Combat Heavy Equipment), Michigan Army National Guard, Jackson, Mich.
Incident: Army Sgt. Matthew Soper died June 6 in Bayji, Iraq, of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1461st Transportation Company (Combat Heavy Equipment), Michigan Army National Guard, Jackson, Mich.
Died: June 06, 2007
Two soldiers with Michigan ties killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
JACKSON, Mich. — A 26-year-old Michigan Army National Guard sergeant who regularly assured his family in e-mail messages that he believed in what he was doing in Iraq has been killed, the family says.
Matthew Soper of Jackson died this week, the military told his family June 6. The circumstances of his death were not immediately available, and the Pentagon had not announced the death early June 7.
“He told me, ‘If I die there, don’t think I didn’t die doing what I love,’ ” his sister, Amy Ciokajlo, 36, told the Jackson Citizen Patriot.
Soper returned from his first Iraq tour in February 2005 and took classes at Kalamazoo Valley Community College until...
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the 1461st Transportation Company (Combat Heavy Equipment), Michigan Army National Guard, Jackson, Mich.
Incident
Army Sgt. Matthew Soper died June 6 in Bayji, Iraq, of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device. He was assigned to the 1461st Transportation Company (Combat Heavy Equipment), Michigan Army National Guard, Jackson, Mich.
Prayers & Messages
Matthew Soper
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.