
ST. LOUIS — Mourners gathered at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Dec. 4 to remember a man who they said lived to fly.
Spc. William David Dusenbery, 30, a soldier from Fairview Heights, Ill., died in a helicopter collision over Mosul, Iraq, on Nov. 15.
Dusenbery, who went by his middle name “Dave,” was a helicopter mechanic with the 101st Airborne Division. He and 16 other soldiers died in the collision.
Rev. Anthony Holder of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in O’Fallon, Ill., told about 150 mourners that Dusenbery died while serving his country and doing what he liked best.
Dusenbery’s father, also named William, and the woman the...