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CPL Andrew Joseph Kemple

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CPL Andrew Joseph Kemple

Birth
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
Death
12 Feb 2006 (aged 23)
Tikrit, Salah ad Din, Iraq
Burial
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA Add to Map
Plot
SECTION 9-A SITE 179
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CPL Andrew J Kemple, 23, of Cambridge, Minnesota wanted to join the Army after the September 11 attacks, but his mom was scared for him, and he agreed to think it over for a while. When he enlisted in 2003, he had her support, his mother. He believed he was bringing help and freedom and protection to other people, and so he did not die in vain. He was the sensitive type and was teased as a youngster for his red hair but he liked to have fun and he graduated from Cambridge Isanti High School in 2001.

He is survived by his father, John Kemple, a sister, Andrea Kemple his mother and stepfather, Richard Ostlund.

Army
3rd Battalion
187th Infantry Regiment
3rd Brigade Combat Team
101st Airborne Division
Fort Campbell, Kentucky
CPL Andrew J Kemple, 23, of Cambridge, Minnesota wanted to join the Army after the September 11 attacks, but his mom was scared for him, and he agreed to think it over for a while. When he enlisted in 2003, he had her support, his mother. He believed he was bringing help and freedom and protection to other people, and so he did not die in vain. He was the sensitive type and was teased as a youngster for his red hair but he liked to have fun and he graduated from Cambridge Isanti High School in 2001.

He is survived by his father, John Kemple, a sister, Andrea Kemple his mother and stepfather, Richard Ostlund.

Army
3rd Battalion
187th Infantry Regiment
3rd Brigade Combat Team
101st Airborne Division
Fort Campbell, Kentucky

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OPERATION
IRAQI FREEDOM

PURPLE HEART
BELOVED SON
AND BROTHER


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