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  • Taps And Tears For Pfc. Rachel Bosveld, Killed In Action She's Part Of 'a Very Honored Group'

    11/11/2003 5:14:30 PM PST · by SJackson · 82 replies · 474+ views
    AP/Madison.com ^ | vember 8, 2003
    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...