Charles A. Kaufman
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Age: 20
From: Fairchild, Wis.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry Regiment, Wisconsin Army National Guard, Arcadia, Wis.
Incident: Army Spc. Charles A. Kaufman was killed June 26 when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee in Baghdad.
Died: June 26, 2005
Wisconsin soldier killed in Iraq
Associated Press
FAIRCHILD, Wis. — A 20-year-old Army specialist who believed his work in Iraq was helping children there was killed in Baghdad after a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee, his family said Monday.
Spc. Charles A. Kaufman, of Fairchild, died Sunday, according to the Department of Defense. He was assigned to the Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry in Eau Claire.
His father, mother and sister, Mark, Celeste and Samantha Kaufman, said in a statement that Kaufman was gentle and kind to children.
“He told us that that when he saw the children in Iraq, and saw how they lived and what they had to deal with, it made it all worthwhile,” the family said.
He and his cousin, Kelly Kaufman, went to Iraq together, serving in the same unit. They were born two weeks apart and were like brothers, the statement said.
The two were determined to go to Iraq...
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Prayers & Messages
Into that gentle night
Grieve if you will, but not for long
Upon my soul's sweet flight
I am at peace, my soul's at rest
There is no need for tears.
For with your love I was so blessed
For all those many years.
There is no pain, I suffer not,
The fear now all is gone.
Put now these things out of your thoughts
In your memory I live on.
Remember not my fight for breath
Remember not the strife
Please do not dwell upon my death,
But celebrate my life.
May he rest in peace.