Posted on 05/27/2003 3:34:00 PM PDT by Trust but Verify
Soldier from Brookfield killed in Iraqi firefight
Brookfield native Mathew Schram, a major in the Army's Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, was killed Monday in a firefight northwest of Baghdad, his family said Tuesday.
Brookfield native Mathew Schram, an Army major, was killed Monday northwest of Baghdad when his convoy came under attack from gunmen who opened fire with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns.
Schram was killed about 110 miles northwest of Baghdad when his convoy came under attack from gunmen who opened fire with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns. He was 36.
The fifth of six children of Earl and Sarah Schram, he graduated from Brookfield Central High School in 1985. Schram had been a member of ROTC at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater before joining the Army in 1989.
For as long as anyone can remember, Mathew wanted to be a soldier in the Army.
"He really liked what he was doing, and he believed in it," said his father, Earl Schram.
His brothers and sisters remembered him Tuesday as a quiet man with high expectations for himself and a tender heart for his eight nieces and nephews.
"He was a wonderful man and a wonderful soldier," said his older brother, David Schram, an insurance salesman from Hales Corners.
More complete coverage of this story will appear online later tonight and in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the morning.
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