Very sad out of New Hamphire.
A young man.



He was a Medic among three to die in blast.
He was from out state of New Hampshire out of Littleton.


David Stelmat
U.S.death toll in Iraq climbs past 4,000 3/24/2008
60 Iraqis killed in violence surges.

A National Guard medic from Littleton was killed in Iraq on Saturday. The National Guard said yesterday that Spc. David Stelmat, 27, of the 237th Military Police Company in the New Hampshire Army National Guard was killed by a roadside bomb.

Stelmat was traveling with two other soldiers in a Humvee when the bomb exploded. All three soldiers were killed.

Stelmat was a medic with the 1132nd Military Police.

He is the 25th New Hampshire serviceman to be killed in Iraq or Afghanistan since fighting began in that region in 2001.

The Dayton Daily News in Ohio reported that Stelmat spent most of his life in New Hampshire.

It said Stelmat is survived by his mother in Littleton; his father, his stepmother, a half-brother and a half-sister in Ohio; and two sisters in California.

According to a release by the New Hampshire National Guard, Stelmat's family in New Hampshire has requested privacy while they were grieving his death.