Senator Whom Oppposed Iraq Losses Her Son To It.

---God Bless you Senator, I truely hope your family finds comfort in the days ahead without him.---

Lourey's son dies in Iraq

SENATOR'S SON: Matthew Lourey, an Army helicopter pilot and the son of state Sen. Becky Lourey of Kerrick, was killed Thursday.

BY SCOTT THISTLE

NEWS TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER


KERRICK - She can still see him, just a boy, make-believe flying in a plywood plane dangling from the box elder in the backyard.

``He had the World War I goggles, the white scarf and everything -- I can see him out there working the ropes and just flying, he always wanted to fly,'' said a grieving mother and state Sen. Becky Lourey Friday.

Earlier the senator learned the news that all mothers with children in Iraq fear the most. Her son, Army Chief Warrant Officer Matt Lourey, a helicopter pilot, had been killed in a crash north of Baghdad on Thursday.

Matt was on his second tour in Iraq, although he didn't have to be there, said family members and friends who had gathered at the Lourey farm in rural Pine County to mourn their loss.

The military said earlier Friday that two U.S. soldiers were killed Thursday when their OH-58 Kiowa helicopter was shot down and crashed in central Iraq, but there was no official confirmation that Matt Lourey was involved in that crash near Buhriz, about 35 miles north of Baghdad.

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