Richard B. Gienau
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Age: 29
From: Peoria, Ill.
Assigned to the 224th Engineer Battalion, Iowa Army National Guard, Burlington, Iowa
Incident: Army 2nd Lt. Richard B. Gienau was killed Feb. 27 when an improvised explosive device hit his military vehicle in Ramadi, Iraq.
Died: February 27, 2005
Iowa soldier killed in Iraq
By Michelle Spitzer
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — One Iowa National Guard member was killed and four others injured when their convoy was attacked in Iraq over the weekend, Lt. Col. Greg Hapgood said.
Hapgood said 2nd Lt. Richard B. “Brian” Gienau, 29, of Peoria, Ill., was a passenger in a Humvee struck by a homemade bomb as it traveled between Karbala and Ramadi on Sunday. He died at the scene.
Gienau’s girlfriend, Katie Allen, 23, of Peoria, Ill., said Monday she spoke to the man she planned to marry hours before he was killed.
“We just chatted about food and Army life, and he said he would be busy for about five days,” Allen said. “I said ‘I don’t care. Call anytime.’ And then I said ‘I love you,’ and that’s the last thing I said to him.”
Injured in the attack were Sgt. Timothy Shay, 22, of Muscatine Spc. Justin Edgington, 23, of West Burlington Spc. Seth Garceau,...