Hitting Close To Home
Baghdad attack kills 3 state Guardsmen:
They were three young National Guardsmen from western Minnesota, all recently married and trying to help injured soldiers in Baghdad, Iraq, when the roadside bomb blew up.
Staff Sgt. David Day, 25, of Morris; Sgt. Jesse Lhotka, 24, of Appleton; and 1st Lt. Jason Timmerman, 24, of Cottonwood were killed Monday and eight other soldiers were wounded in the explosion, according to their families and friends.
Day, Lhotka and Timmerman were members of the 151st Field Artillery based in Montevideo and were deployed overseas for 12 to 18 months last fall. All three men grew up in rural western Minnesota.
One was a St. Louis Park cop, one a jokester-turned-businessman and the other a computer whiz and former schoolteacher. All married within the last two years.
Too close to home. R.I.P.
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