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State solder killed in Afghanistan

February 26, 2009 By WRN Contributor

A soldier from Wisconsin has died in Afghanistan. LisaThompson said two military chaplains came to her workplace, Gordo's Barand Grill in Portage, on Tuesday and informed her of the death of her24-year-old son, Army Spc. Daniel James Thompson.Thompson said her son waslead driver in a convoy and was killed by a roadside bomb in Kandajarprovince in southern Afghanistan. Three other soldiers also died.LisaThompson said her husband, Bob, met her at work and they criedtogether, then had to tell her son's longtime girlfriend, MariaSteinke, what had happened.Her son was a 2003 graduate of Portage High School.

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