Note: This article was originally published on Nov 14, 2003. We’re re-posting it now for our tribute to Colorado’s Fallen.
DANIEL BADER
Stationed at Fort Carson
Army Staff Sgt. Daniel Bader wasn’t afraid of going to war, his
wife said. He had greater concerns.
“The thing that scared him most was when we had our little girl.
She was so tiny and so fragile,” said Tiffany Bader of Fort
Carson.
Their daughter, Taryn Makenzie, is now 14 months old.
Bader was one of 16 soldiers killed in the Nov. 2 downing of a
helicopter carrying troops home from Iraq on leave.
“It hasn’t hit me yet, that I’m not going to have a husband. That
I’m a widow at 30. That my little girl is going to be raised
without a father,” Tiffany Bader said.
Daniel Bader, 28, joined the National Guard shortly after high
school graduation, and then joined the Army when he was 18.
“He loved it, absolutely loved the military,” his wife said. “If
I could compare him to anybody, it would be Jim Carey; that was the
type of humor my husband had.”
