#rememberthem #gonebutnotforgotten #veterans #veteransday #rip #friend #father #eugenewilliams #dontforget. Army Sgt. Eugene Williams Died March 29, 2003 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom 24, of Highland, N.Y.; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.; killed in a suicide car-bombing near Najaf, Iraq. Father of one was expecting second child in June All Eugene Williams wanted was a little home cooking. That’s what his older sister, Lori Ackert, remembers most from a letter he sent her. It arrived Saturday, March 29. “He was very optimistic — he wrote that he couldn’t wait to come home so he could cook us some good food,” she told the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal. Just hours earlier, Williams had been among the four soldiers killed by the suicide car bomber near Najaf in south-central Iraq. A laid-back man with a love for soulful R&B music, Williams, 24, had planned to finish a demo tape showcasing his singing. Although he aspired to fame, to family and friends in Highland, N.Y., in the Hudson River valley, it was enough that he was a good guy. Williams was married to Brandy Delacruz Williams and lived in Hawaii. They have a 3-year-old daughter, Mya, and were expecting a second child in June
