
MILWAUKEE — A former coach described the 21-year-old soldier from Shiocton killed in Iraq as an unselfish person who was good at everything he tried.
“I’m not surprised he went to serve his country. It doesn’t surprise me he would do something so noble,” Chad Schmidt, who coached Nicholas E. Riehl in basketball and golf at Shiocton High School, said April 30.
The Army private first class died April 27 in Fallujah from wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his unit during a combat patrol, the U.S. Department of Defense said.
“He’s a guy that I would want to go to war with,” Schmidt said. “He’s one of those guys that...