OMAHA, Neb.—A 19-year-old Greenwood man died Thursday in Iraq in an attack on a complex, according to family.
Spc. Dustin L. Workman II was a member of the 2/12 Infantry Battalion, B Company, 2nd Brigade Combat Team of Fort Carson, Colo., his mother Valerie Workman told the Omaha World-Herald.
“We grieve for the loss of our son, brother and grandson,” she said in a brief statement released Friday. “He served his country with honor.”
Workman graduated from Ashland-Greenwood High in 2005.
Jon Richards, a guidance counselor at the school, recalled Workman as a strong-willed young man who knew as a freshman or sophomore that he wanted to enlist in the Army.
Richards said Workman’s younger brother, Korey, will be a freshman this fall, and a sister, Krysta, will be an eighth-grader.
“I know that they are a very close-knit family and this will be a tough on all of them,” Richards said.
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Information from: Omaha World-Herald,
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