Charles A. Drier
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Age: 28
From: Tuscola, Mich.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 76th Field Artillery, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Incident: Army Sgt. Charles A. Drier was killed May 24 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee in Baghdad. Also
Died: May 24, 2005
Michigan soldier killed in Iraq
Associated Press
COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A soldier from Michigan who enlisted in the Army to give his life meaning and direction was killed this week by an explosion in Iraq, his mother said.
Sgt. Charles A. Drier, 28, who was serving as a sniper, was scheduled to return to Michigan on leave in July to give his mother away at her wedding, but was killed Tuesday, The Saginaw News reported.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Defense, which had not confirmed the death as of Thursday morning, declined to comment.
Mary Drier, of Tuscola County’s Columbia Township, learned of her son’s death while she was at work at the Tuscola County Advertiser, where she is a reporter. She said her son enlisted in March 2001.
“He felt like his life was going nowhere,” she said. “There’s nothing but dead-end jobs around here. He wanted his life to have a purpose, to have some...