09-07-2006
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County Executive
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Member Since: Feb 2005
Location: California
Posts: 382
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Re: The Iraq Page, RIP soldiers
 
Justin Dreese
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FREEBURG, PA. - A North Carolina soldier died in Iraq just weeks after returning to the Middle East from leave, his mother said Tuesday.
Pfc. Justin Dreese, 21, served with the 82nd Airborne Division, based at Fort Bragg. The Pentagon has not released details of Dreese's death.
"He will be sadly missed," Dreese's mother, Kathryn Shaffer, said by phone on Tuesday. "He was my only child."
Shaffer said she last saw her son five weeks ago, before he returned to Fort Bragg and then went overseas. Dreese had been back in Iraq for three weeks when he was killed.
Shaffer described Dreese as an avid hunter and fisherman who made it a point to go fishing with his grandfather when he was home.
"He was a wonderful son. A patriot. Everybody loved him. A good kid," Shaffer said.
The front porch of the home of Dreese's father and stepmother in Freeburg was adorned with a yellow ribbon, and cars packed the driveway Monday, a day after the family learned of his death.
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He died this weekend. Rest in peace Justin.
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