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Brownsville family mourns son they didn't want to enlist.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-JAN-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Brownsville family mourns son they didn't want to enlist.(General News)(The sad news of a young sergeant's death in an Iraq bombing brings grief and anger)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Rebecca Nolan The Register-Guard

BROWNSVILLE - A U.S. Army sergeant killed this week in a roadside bombing in Iraq joined the military despite resistance from his family.

Travis A. Moothart, 23, of Brownsville enlisted in April 2000. He was sent to Iraq in September.

He died Tuesday when an improvised explosive device detonated in Khalidiya, west of Baghdad. Moothart, a lightweight-vehicle mechanic, was driving an unarmored vehicle as part of a convoy when the bomb exploded, his family said. Two of his passengers also were killed.

The small Linn County community of Brownsville where Moothart was raised has embraced his family since word of his death hit the news, his...

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