Army Staff Sgt. John L. Hartman Jr.
39, of Tampa, Fla.
assigned to the 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.; died Nov. 30 of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee during combat operations in Baghdad.
Tags: tampa“He was good at taking care of his buddies,” said Rich Hickey, Hartman’s best friend. “He was the kind of person who wouldn’t bail you out of jail, he’d be there with you.” He was a 1986 high school graduate… A lifelong fisherman and hunter, Hartman was an outdoorsman who would rather be digging ditches than sitting behind a computer screen. Hartman and Hickey came close to facing jail one rowdy night in Kentucky. “We were hauled in for learning how to repel from an aerosol tower at midnight, while inebriated, hanging upside down 40 feet from the ground,” Hickey said. He also is survived by his children, Tori and Stephen.
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June 29th, 2007 at 12:56 am
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
- Kenji Miyazawa
April 24th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
what the hell is this? and who are you have no right to put this shit up of my uncle and you need not take words from other sites