Sesker, Daniel Laverne
From OGDEN, IA, SGT Sesker, Daniel Laverne served with the ARMY, TROOP C, 1ST SQUADRON, 113TH CAVALRY REGIMENT, LE MARS, IA, and died on April 6, 2006 in BAGHDAD, IRAQ. He was 22. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
Sesker, Daniel Laverne of OGDEN, IA, 22 years old, served in the ARMY with TROOP C, 1ST SQUADRON, 113TH CAVALRY REGIMENT, LE MARS, IA at the rank of SGT ? one of the Americans deployed to Iraq.
April 6, 2006 ? Sesker, Daniel Laverne died in BAGHDAD, IRAQ, HOSTILE. The Department of Defense confirmed his death in 2006.
Operation Iraqi Freedom began March 19, 2003 with the US-led invasion. The stated justification ? weapons of mass destruction ? was never found. Seven years of occupation, insurgency, and sectarian war followed, killing 4,418 Americans and an estimated 200,000 Iraqi civilians.
The ARMY classified his death as "HOSTILE" ? a category that matters to the families who must make sense of it. His name is documented in the Defense Casualty Analysis System at https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oif.
Explore Further
Sesker, Daniel Laverne was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom (from March 2003 to August 2010). The conflict concluded in August 2010. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.
Among those documented in the same conflict: Kennedy, Brian Matthew, Beaupre, Ryan Anthony, Gutierrez, Jose, Waters-bey, Kendall Damon.