44 years old from Webster New York
401st Civil Affairs Battalion
September 1, 2008
While at Walter Reed, Deville was assigned to Chosen Battery, Warrior Transition Brigade, and was among three graduates of the Army’s first Basic Noncommissioned Officers Course Stand Alone Common Core offered to Warriors in Transition.
Deville, who successfully completed every aspect of the course from a wheelchair, was lauded by SGT Major of the Army Kenneth O. Preston as exemplifying the Army’s ‘Warrior Ethos’, at the graduation ceremony for the course on March 28, 2008.
Deville was also the impetus for a new playground being built behind the Mologne House at Walter Reed in 2007.
An October 2007 Washington Post article about the opening of the playground says that SSGT Deville’s mention of her children’s limited recreational options to Col. Bruce Haselden, the garrison commander, helped set in motion the playground project.
Staff Sgt. Renee Antoinette Deville died September 1, 2008 in her room at the Mologne House at Walter Reed. She was 44.
She is survived by her husband and 4 children, her mother, a brother, and two sisters.
SSGT Deville was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery on September 19, 2008.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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German police commandos stormed a KLM passenger jet at Cologne/Bonn
airport and arrested two men after terror suicide notes were allegedly
found at their homes.
Zdarek, 47, died in the terrorist bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. He temporarily stayed in the hotel due to the ongoing reconstruction of the Czech embassy building.
Charge d’affairs Jaroslav Kalfirt will temporarily head the embassy.
Zdarek is one of more than 50 casualties.
His remains were flown to Prague on Monday where the last respects were paid to him by President Vaclav Klaus and Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek.
“He was a professional who fulfilled his duties even in the most complicated conditions. He fell prey to an unexcusable coward terrorist attack,” Deputy Foreign Minister Tomas Pojar said in his speech Friday.
Zdarek, who took up the post of ambassador to Islamabad recently, survived the explosion in front of the Marriott Hotel, but probably died in the following fire when he was helping other endangered people.
Zdarek was born in 1960. After he completed his studies, he worked in the diplomatic service and he was Czech ambassador to Vietnam in 2004-2008. Zdarek was married and had two sons.
Pojar said earlier that the ministry did not view the attack in Pakistan as an attack against the Czech Republic.
The Pakistani embassy in Prague regrets the victims and condemns violence, it has told CTK.
Three Czech soldiers wounded in Afghanistan [ ?TK | 23 Sep ]
Czech soldiers wounded in Afghanistan arrive in Prague [ RADIO PRAGUE | 25 Sep ]
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