Freedom Remembered

Born: July 9, 1983 in Billings, Montana
Died: February 13, 2010 in Zhari, Afghanistan

Sgt Jeremiah T. Wittman of Darby, Montana attended Bench and Lockwood Elementaries and Castle Rock Middle School before moving with his mom to Powell, Wyo., for a few years. He earned his high school diploma from Trapper Creek High in Darby and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2004. He grew up riding dirt bikes with his sisters and father in the Pine Hills, where he asked for his ashes to be scattered. He’d ride when it was 10 below. Even when he was stuck on a tricycle, he’d jump it off the precipice into the unfinished basement of his parent’s home. He had been in Afghanistan since the spring of 2009. He only had two months left to serve in Afghanistan and was looking forward to coming home and being with his family. Jeremiah was killed by a suicide bomber while he was on a foot patrol in Afghanistan. Jeremiah is survived by his two daughters and wife, Karen; father Robert Wittman; mother Cynthia Church; and sisters Charity and Jenell. He died at age 26 of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. His wishes were to be cremated and for his ashes to be scattered on his father’s land in Pine Hills.
Army
1st Battalion
12th Infantry Regiment
4th Brigade Combat Team
4th Infantry Division
Fort Carson, Colorado

Burial location is unknown at this time.

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