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Service to honor fallen soldier
by Outspoken on Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:15 am
Service to honor fallen soldier
By Aimee Dolloff
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
OLD TOWN - The world got to know Maj. Andrew Olmsted, who died Jan. 3 in Diyala Province, Iraq, as the soldier who loved to blog. But his relatives here in Maine knew the 37-year-old as "Andy," a warm, intelligent man, a Red Sox fan and movie buff.
"It’s hard for me because he’s Andy to me — my nephew," Olmsted’s aunt, Joan Gott of Old Town, said Wednesday. "This Major Andrew Olmsted is like another person."
Gott received an e-mail from her nephew that was written the day before he died, but said she hasn’t been able to read it yet.
"It’s a little hard because he wrote it the night before," Gott said.
Olmsted was assigned to the Army’s Military Transition Team, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kan., according to the Department of Defense. He and another soldier, Capt. Thomas J. Casey, 32, of Albuquerque, N.M., were killed last week in a rebel attack.
"He was in a noncombat unit," Gott said. "We thought he would probably be a little safer because he was there to train, not to fight."
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=158729&zoneid=500
(AP Photo/The Rocky Mountain News, Javier Manzano, FILE)
By Aimee Dolloff
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
OLD TOWN - The world got to know Maj. Andrew Olmsted, who died Jan. 3 in Diyala Province, Iraq, as the soldier who loved to blog. But his relatives here in Maine knew the 37-year-old as "Andy," a warm, intelligent man, a Red Sox fan and movie buff.
"It’s hard for me because he’s Andy to me — my nephew," Olmsted’s aunt, Joan Gott of Old Town, said Wednesday. "This Major Andrew Olmsted is like another person."
Gott received an e-mail from her nephew that was written the day before he died, but said she hasn’t been able to read it yet.
"It’s a little hard because he wrote it the night before," Gott said.
Olmsted was assigned to the Army’s Military Transition Team, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kan., according to the Department of Defense. He and another soldier, Capt. Thomas J. Casey, 32, of Albuquerque, N.M., were killed last week in a rebel attack.
"He was in a noncombat unit," Gott said. "We thought he would probably be a little safer because he was there to train, not to fight."
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=158729&zoneid=500
(AP Photo/The Rocky Mountain News, Javier Manzano, FILE)
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