Daniel Zizumbo
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Age: 27
From: Chicago
Assigned to 1st Transportation Movement Control Agency, 21st Theater Support Command, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Incident: Army Pfc. Daniel Zizumbo died Feb. 27 in Bagram, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device.
Died: February 27, 2007
Chicago soldier killed by explosive in Afghanistan
The Associated Press
CHICAGO � A 27-year-old soldier from Chicago has been killed by an explosive in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced Thursday.
Army Pfc. Daniel Zizumbo died Tuesday in Bagram, which is about an hour north of Kabul and serves as the main U.S. air base in Afghanistan.
Zizumbo had been assigned to the 1st Transportation Movement Control Agency, 21st Theater Support Command, in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
A telephone listing for a Daniel Zizumbo in Chicago did not belong to the soldier.
Julia Zizumbo, his mother, said it was her son�s second time in the military. After graduating from Juarez High School, he joined the Marines at age 17.
For the next few years, he applied for jobs in Chicago and briefly attended college before enlisting in the Army.
Julia Zizumbo said she didn�t agree with her son�s...