Christopher Scott Seifert
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Age: 27
From: Easton, Pa.
Assigned to the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
Incident: Army Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert was killed in a grenade attack near the Iraq-Kuwait border.
Died: March 22, 2003
Winning smile ‘lit up morning’
By Tom Kenworthy
USA Today
Christopher Seifert was an athlete, a musician and an outstanding student. But it was his smile that people remember best.
“He had an absolutely winning smile,” recalled Robert Stinson, a history professor at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa., who was Seifert’s academic adviser and instructor for two courses. “You saw him coming and saw his smile, and he lit up the morning.”
Seifert, 27, was a captain in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell, Ky. He was killed in Kuwait Saturday when authorities say another U.S. soldier shot him in the back and tossed hand grenades into the command tents of the division’s 1st Brigade.
Seifert was married to Theresa Flowers-Seifert, who also had been a student at Moravian. The couple had their first child, Benjamin, four months ago.