Casey M. LaWare, 19

Army, Private 1st Class

Based: Ft. Irwin, Calif.

2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom

Died: April 9, 2005

Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany

Single

Gender: Male

Hometown: Redding

High School: Enterprise High (Redding)

Burial: Redding Memorial Park, Redding, Calif.

We'd stay and talk for hours or we'd just lay there. Sometimes we didn't need to say anything; just being in each other's company was enough.

— Kendall Grace, cousin

LaWare died at a hospital in Germany three days after being severely burned in a guard tower fire. He loved his family's annual traditions--gathering at his grandmother's house for Thanksgiving dinner and cutting down a Christmas tree the next weekend.

Times obituary

« Anthony J. Davis Jr., 04/23/2005

Juan C. Venegas, 04/07/2005 »

Two memories of Casey M. LaWare

I will never forget him. And for what he did for his country.

— Kinsey. R

September 3, 2008 at 8:22 p.m.

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Actually spent my last night in fort Irwin driving in his Impala. Myself, Laware, and two others hiked up to the old silver mines at FT Irwin and camped out for the night. Really fun kid.

— Jesse Canlett

December 30, 2009 at 1:21 p.m.

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