LINCOLN, Neb.—Services were held Saturday for a Greenwood soldier based at Fort Carson, Colo., who was killed in Iraq last week.
Friends and family among the 350 who attended the service said Dustin L. Workman II was loyal to his friends, fun-loving and creative.
“He was the best friend a guy could ask for,” said 19-year-old Josh Williams of Ashland. “He’d always find ways to make you laugh.”
Workman and four other members of his unit were killed June 28 in Baghdad by improvised explosive devices. He was 19.
Workman was a member of the 2nd Battalion 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, based at Fort Carson.
Tom Stricklin, a member of that unit, read a letter from Workman’s Fort Carson roommate.
Workman “always found a way to get into trouble,” Stricklin said the roommate wrote.
Stricklin said Workman was “an unforgettable guy.”
Workman graduated from Ashland-Greenwood High in 2005.
One of his former English teachers said Workman was a talented writer who loved books and liked to go his own way.
“Dustin was kind of a rebel,” Jeff Grinvalds said. “He was kind of a James Dean character.”
Workman is the 51st service member with Nebraska connections to have died in Afghanistan or Iraq since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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