2004-05-31 - 9:15 a.m.
One more, this time from Afghanistan. Eggers was two years behind me.
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May 31, 2004
HOLLIS, N.H. -- A 28-year old soldier who grew up in town has died in
Afghanistan.
Capt. Daniel Eggers was one of four soldiers killed Saturday when their
Humvee entered a field of land mines, his aunt, Dorothy D'Vann, of New
Boston told the Union Leader. An Afghan government official said Humvee
hit a mine in Zabul's mountainous Sorie district.
Eggers grew up in Hollis and attended Hollis Elementary School from
third to fifth grade, D'Vann said. His family moved in 1987 to Cape
Coral, Fla., where he attended high school and joined the ROTC. Eggers
had always wanted to be a soldier, she said.
"I can remember visiting him in Florida and seeing him on the lawn with
a Desert Storm uniform and a makeshift gun," D'Vann said. "He wasn't
afraid of anything," she added.
Eggers graduated from The Citadel, in South Carolina, ranking near the
top of his class, she said. He served in the Army special forces.
Eggers, who would have turned 29 in July, leaves behind a wife,
Rebecca, two brothers, four sisters and his parents, Margaret and William
Eggers. One of his brothers, Billy, also is in the military and will be
returning to Afghanistan soon, D'Vann said.
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