When Staff Sgt. Day proposed to his high school sweetheart, he made sure it was unforgettable. He bought her a new car and placed the engagement ring in the glove compartment for her to find. "David Day was the type of young man every father wants his daughter to marry," said John Luse, chief of the St. Louis Park, Minn., police department where Day was an officer. "Our hearts are broken." Day, 25, was one of three Minnesota National Guardsmen killed by a roadside blast Feb. 21. He was based in Montevideo, Minn. As a boy, Day played Little League baseball, loved to skateboard and worked his way up to Eagle Scout. He worked in a grocery store as a teen and successfully led an effort to overturn a ban on driving snowmobiles to school. After high school, he attended Alexandria Technical College and spent summers working as a community service officer in Morris, Minn. He was a police officer for less than a year before his Guard unit was sent to Iraq. "He was one of those people everybody loved," said Jim Beauregard, the police chief in Morris. "He was always there to help you and help anybody else." Day is survived by his wife, Amy. He was 25.
Army
National Guard
1st Battalion,
151st Field Artillery,
34th Infantry Division,
Montevideo, Minnesota.
Army
National Guard
1st Battalion,
151st Field Artillery,
34th Infantry Division,
Montevideo, Minnesota.
When Staff Sgt. Day proposed to his high school sweetheart, he made sure it was unforgettable. He bought her a new car and placed the engagement ring in the glove compartment for her to find. "David Day was the type of young man every father wants his daughter to marry," said John Luse, chief of the St. Louis Park, Minn., police department where Day was an officer. "Our hearts are broken." Day, 25, was one of three Minnesota National Guardsmen killed by a roadside blast Feb. 21. He was based in Montevideo, Minn. As a boy, Day played Little League baseball, loved to skateboard and worked his way up to Eagle Scout. He worked in a grocery store as a teen and successfully led an effort to overturn a ban on driving snowmobiles to school. After high school, he attended Alexandria Technical College and spent summers working as a community service officer in Morris, Minn. He was a police officer for less than a year before his Guard unit was sent to Iraq. "He was one of those people everybody loved," said Jim Beauregard, the police chief in Morris. "He was always there to help you and help anybody else." Day is survived by his wife, Amy. He was 25.
Army
National Guard
1st Battalion,
151st Field Artillery,
34th Infantry Division,
Montevideo, Minnesota.
Army
National Guard
1st Battalion,
151st Field Artillery,
34th Infantry Division,
Montevideo, Minnesota.
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