In Carson City’s Mills Park, near the Nevada Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial is a memorial marker for Anthony J. Schober, a U.S. hero killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2007 about south of Baghdad, Iraq.
After re-enlisting in the U.S. Army, the Army sergeant was on his third tour of duty in Iraq.
U.S. Army Sgt. Anthony J. SchoberIn Carson City’s Mills Park, near the Nevada Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial is a memorial marker for Anthony J. Schober, a U.S. soldier killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2007 about south of Baghdad, Iraq.
Sgt. Schober had lived in Gardnerville and attended Douglas High School, but according to an article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, he considered Carson City his hometown.
The state Capitol’s flags were flown at half-staff after former Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons ordered it and called Sgt. Schober one of America’s “true heroes.”
According to an article in The Press Democrat in Sonoma County’s city of Santa Rosa in California, this American hero was awarded THREE Purple Hearts!
The article noted he was serving with the legendary 10th Mountain Division’s Company D, 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment.
The Press Democrat said the regiment was “nicknamed ‘the Polar Bears’ because of the unit’s World War 1-era service in Siberia.”
U.S. Army Sgt. Anthony J. SchoberIn Carson City’s Mills Park, near the Nevada Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial is a memorial marker for Anthony J. Schober, a U.S. soldier killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2007 about south of Baghdad, Iraq.
The reason the newspaper covered the sergeant’s death was because his grandparents, Robert and Leona Asper, lived in Rohnert Park, a community adjacent to Santa Rosa.
The article, while very sad and moving, is worth reading.
Another, much less-complete article, was published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. It is also worth reading.
Thank you for your service, Sgt. Schober.