| STAFF SERGEANT Justin J. Galewski |
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Age: 28 Hometown: Olathe, Kan. Family: wife Christine; 3-year-old son Chase; 2-year-old daughter Paige Unit: U.S. Army, 710th Ordnance Company, Staff Sergeant Galewski was one of four U.S. soldiers killed after Soviet-era missiles they were trying to destroy accidentally exploded north of Kandahar. Several other soldiers were injured during the series of six blasts next to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar's former compound in an area where large caliber rockets confiscated from former Taliban ammunition dumps are normally destroyed in controlled detonations. Galewski graduated from Olathe North High School in 1992 and had worked for a while at a fast food restaurant before joining the Army the next year. His wife Christine said her husband loved being a bomb-disposal technician. "He did it for his family, and he did for his country," she said. |