{"id":448,"date":"2017-01-11T21:24:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deamaltzchallenge.com\/?p=448"},"modified":"2017-01-23T19:19:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T02:19:27","slug":"u-s-army-pfc-rachel-k-bosveld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/11\/u-s-army-pfc-rachel-k-bosveld\/","title":{"rendered":"Army PFC Rachel K. Bosveld"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Army Pfc. Rachel K. Bosveld<\/h1>\n

Died October 26, 2003 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom<\/h2>\n
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19, of Waupun, Wis.; assigned to the 527th Military Police Company, V Corps, Giesen, Germany; killed Oct. 26 during a mortar attack on the Abu Ghraib Police Station in Abu Ghraib, Iraq.<\/p>\n

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Wisconsin soldier dies in Iraq<\/p>\n

By Colleen Kottke<\/p>\n

The (Fond Du Lac, Wis.) Reporter<\/p>\n

WAUPUN, Wis. \u2014 The news of Rachel Bosveld\u2019s death has brought the reality of the conflict in Iraq home to Waupun.<\/p>\n

Bosveld, a member of the 527th Military Police, was killed Sunday during a mortar attack at a Baghdad police station.<\/p>\n

As the word of the 19-year-old\u2019s death filtered through the community, friends who knew the fun-loving brunette sought out one another to grieve and relive memories spent with their fallen friend.<\/p>\n

Although Bosveld attended Waupun High School for only two years after transferring from Oshkosh West High School, it is clear that she made a lasting impression in the lives of those who knew her.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was energetic and always laughing,\u201d said Krissy Beske, UW-Fond du Lac student and former classmate. \u201cWhen she first came to school, we just kind of pulled her into our circle and took her under our wing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beske says that Bosveld was very independent and comfortable with who she was.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was really unique and had her own style and wasn\u2019t embarrassed to show it,\u201d said Beske, who also tells of Bosveld\u2019s sense of humor. \u201cSometimes we would just do silly stuff, like dress up like boys and then go out in public.\u201d<\/p>\n

After she learned of Bosveld\u2019s death, she spent time with friend Jessica Gruening, looking over old pictures of themselves and Bosveld in happier times.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause she had been away for so long, the news didn\u2019t really hit me at first, but when we began looking at old pictures and wishing she was here, it came over us big time,\u201d said Beske. \u201c(Rachel) was such a strong person and I looked up to her. She knew what she wanted and where she wanted to go in life. I will always remember that about her.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Army Pfc. Rachel K. Bosveld Died October 26, 2003 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom 19, of Waupun, Wis.; assigned to the 527th Military Police Company, V Corps, Giesen, Germany; killed Oct. 26 during a mortar attack on the Abu Ghraib Police Station in Abu Ghraib, Iraq. Wisconsin soldier dies in Iraq By Colleen Kottke The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017honorees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}