
FORT LEWIS, Wash. — Family, friends and fellow soldiers gathered Jan. 5 in the main chapel at Fort Lewis for a tearful farewell to Spc. Charles G. Haight, who was raised in Alabama and died in Iraq the day after Christmas.
Haight, a 23-year-old mechanic with the 14th Engineer Battalion, 555th Engineer Group, died Dec. 26 when the Humvee he was riding in was struck by a roadside bomb, according to the Army. He was the fifth Fort Lewis soldier to die in Iraq.
As a soldier, Haight was “easygoing, dedicated and professional,” said Capt. Erik Hendrickson, his commanding officer at Fort Lewis. “He would do anything for you and he was always there when...