This is the VIC 4 VETS, Weekly Honored Veterans.
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Staff Sergeant Robert J Traxel
Staff Sergeant, The United States Army
70th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, Missouri National Guard
Born: 04-29-1978 Died: 07-02-2012
Died in Guatemala during a training exercise, during take-off, a helicopter hit a tree which fell on Sgt. Traxel;
Served in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom;
Served as a Broadcast Journalist;
Served in the Missouri National Guard, U.S. Naval Reserves, U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Army;
Lived in Union, Missouri
Married to Mrs. Karen Chambers Traxel;
Father to Joshua, Noah, Jonah, and a step-daughter, Grace;
Parents were Jay Traxel and Anita Gardner;
Former Florissant Police Officer;
Member of Algabil-Freedom Masonic Lodge #636 Af & AM,
Moolah Shrine Temple, and the Metropolitan Press Club of St. Louis;
Buried in Midlawn Memorial Gardens, Union, MO;
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