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<p>Memorial Day is like any other day when you're in an Army at War.</p> <p>On Memorial Day, May 26th, 2003 at approximately 7:00AM, Major Mathew E. Schram was leading a resupply convoy in Western Iraq near the Syrian border. Major Schram was the Support Operations Officer for the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment (out of Ft. Carson, Colorado). He had responsibility for organizing the logistical arm of the regiment - ensuring that the Cavalrymen never ran out of food, fuel or ammo.</p>

A standing-room-only crowd of 700 packed a gymnasium Friday for a funeral service to remember Army Pfc. Rachel Bosveld, who was the fifth Wisconsin soldier killed in Iraq. Bosveld, of Waupun, was killed Oct. 26 during a mortar attack on a police station in Abu Ghraib, Iraq. Before the eulogy, Gov. Jim Doyle spoke to the family at the service at the 332nd Support Center of the Wisconsin National Guard. Friday would have been her 20th birthday and her family received her second Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. "Please know that Rachel's death was not in vain," said...

Names of the four US Marines who died in yesterday's helicopter crash: Maj. Jay Thomas Aubin, 36, of Waterville, Maine Capt. Ryan Anthony Beaupre, 30, of Bloomington, Ill. Cpl. Brian Matthew Kennedy, 25, of Houston, Texas Staff Sgt. Kendall Damon Watersbey, 29, of Baltimore, Md. The Pentagon has just released the names of two more US Marines who were killed in Iraq. I'll post as soon as I find that.

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...