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SPC Kurt W. Kern
HQ Detachment, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Brigade

Killed In Action ~ 27 December 2011 ~ Afghanistan

 
 

 

They Say,
our deaths are not ours,
they are yours,
they will mean what
you make of them.

They say,
we leave you our deaths,
give them some
meaning.

Archibald MacLeish
poet and WWI veteran.
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     SPC Kurt W. Kern age 24, of McAllen, Texas died 27 December of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device in Paktia, Afghanistan. Killed in the same attack were SSG Noah M. Korte and PFC Justin M. Whitmire.
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   Kurt joined the Army in September 2009 as military police and was assigned to the 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas since September 2011. He deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in December 2011.
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