Wednesday, April 12 2006 @ 06:44 AM EDT
Contributed by: River97
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www.news-leader.com -- A soldier from Springfield died Monday in Balad, Iraq, the U.S. Department of Defense said Tuesday.
Army Sgt. 1st Class Randall L. Lamberson was wounded Sunday in Ramadi when an explosive detonated near his vehicle, the military said.

Lamberson, 36, joined the Army in 1989 and arrived at Fort Campbell, Ky., in 2001. He is survived by his wife, Dana, daughter Kelsi and son Evan, of Fort Campbell; and his father, Lloyd, of Lampe.
"Randall believed in what he was doing," Dana Lamberson said in a statement released by the post Tuesday night.
Lamberson was a member of the Army's 1st Battalion, 506th Army Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division stationed in Fort Campbell.
He was one of three sons of Joy Lamberson-Klock, founder of New Hope, a not-for-profit support group in Springfield for women with gynecological cancers. Lamberson-Klock died in 2003 after battling ovarian cancer.
The deaths of Lamberson and two other soldiers killed Monday bring to 141 the number of members of the 101st Airborne who have died in Iraq since the war began more than three years ago. |
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I would like to say thank you to you and the other soldier who was killed in that blast with you for your service and sacrifice for our Country. And to your family, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.
"Currahee"(We Stand Alone Together)
506th Inf. Motto