Christopher K. Hill
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Age: 26
From: Ventura, Calif.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, based at Fort Riley, Kan.
Incident: Army Spc. Christopher K. Hill was killed March 11 when his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Fallujah, Iraq.
Died: March 11, 2004
Soldier killed in Iraq buried near Charlotte
Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A soldier who rejoined the Army after a three-year absence so that he would have a hand in the war against terrorism was buried in Pineville, N.C., leaving behind a wife and their 14-month-old daughter.
More than 200 people came to Independent Bible Baptist Church on March 18 to remember Spc. Christopher Kenneth Hill, 26, of Moorpark, Calif.
Many of the mourners spoke from a pulpit surrounded by flowers and photo collages showing Hill from childhood to fatherhood. They recalled Hill as an outgoing man whose love of country was surpassed only by his love of family.
“He was a father. He was a son. He was a brother and a great friend,” said Jeremy McCarver, the pastor who married Hill and his wife, Cheryl.
Hill was to have seen the couple’s daughter, Cierra, for the first time in nearly a year on March 21, when he was scheduled to...