Note: This article was originally published on Sept. 2, 2004. We’re re-posting it now for our Colorado’s Fallen tribute.
ARMY SPEC. DANA N. WILSON had dreams of coming home to Colorado and
opening a restaurant once he returned from Iraq.
“He was so close. So close to coming home,” said his brother
Damian Wilson, a soldier at Fort Carson.
Dana Wilson, 26, of Fountain, died July 11 in a head-on collision
with another vehicle in a convoy near Hillah. He had been stationed
in Germany.
Wilson is survived by his wife, Christen, and two sons, Tristan, 5,
and Brandon, 3. The couple was married in 1999 on Valentine’s Day,
according to state records, and the family was living in Germany.
Damian Wilson said his younger brother had been in the Army for
less than a year and wanted to become a cook. As kids, the two
brothers played baseball and football together.
“I was quarterback,” Damian Wilson said. “My brother was the
only one who would know where I was throwing the ball before I
would throw it.”
