101st Airborne Division:
Close-knit military community feels pain of deaths in wars the nation has forgotten
By Dianna Cahn
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Rain came in a deluge on the Friday of Sgt. William Bays’ funeral.
“He was a friend, a peer, a husband,” Sgt. Lucas Schultze, a fellow soldier of the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, said, crying as he spoke of the more senior comrade who taught him to lead. “A father, a son and a brother.”
Mourners filed out of the chapel on Fort Campbell, ducking into dry cars that maneuvered into formation.
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