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LARGE CROWD MOURNS FAIRCHILD SOLDIER'S DEATH
Friday, July 8th, 2005 -- 9:13 am
Posted by Riley Hebert-News Director
Hundreds of people attended the funeral for a soldier from Fairchild who died in a bomb blast in Baghdad. Specialist Charles Kaufman served in the Army National Guard's First Battalion, 128th Infantry from the Eau Claire. Charles Kaufman was fatally injured June 26th when a roadside bomb exploded near his Humvee. Many at the funeral spoke of the 20-year-old Kaufman's courage, confidence and ability. Kaufman was the 40th Wisconsin soldier or Marine killed in Iraq and the second member of the 128th to die in Iraq.
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