Army Pfc. Louis E. Niedermeier
tommy20, of Largo, Fla.
assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.; killed June 1 when his unit was conducting combat operations and he came under enemy small-arms fire in Ramadi, Iraq.
Niedermeier attended Clearwater High School as a freshman and sophomore, playing quarterback, offense and defense on the Clearwater Junior Tornadoes. He transferred to Pinellas Park High in his junior year. He worked as a glazer with his father at Glass Pros of Tampa’s Clearwater office, and at Best Buy, but was proudest of his Army job.
He loved hot peppers and complained about the food in Iraq. When he got tired of Slim Jims, his family sent him beef jerky. They also sent him a motorcycle magazine for his birthday. He bought a blue Suzuki motorcycle in February and a red one off eBay while he was in Iraq.
Niedermeier was buried at Arlington while President Bush was in Minnesota.
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June 6th, 2007 at 11:58 am
“Heroism is latent in every human soul….However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all self-denials; privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself ? For some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.”
- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain