Donald Walters
Rank/Branch: Sgt./Army
Unit: 507th Maintenance Co., Fort Bliss, Texas
Agr: 33
Date of Birth
Home City of Record: Salem, Ore.
Date of Loss: March 23, 2003
Remains recovered and identified - Reported April 04, 2003
Country of Loss: Iraq
Loss Coordinates: Nasiriyah
Status: MIA/Iraq
Category:
Acft/Vehicle/Ground: Convoy
Other Personnel in Incident: Army Chief Warrant Officer Johnny Villareal Mata, 35, El Paso, Texas, Army Master Sgt. Robert J. Dowdy, 38, Cleveland, Army Sgt. James Riley, 31, Pennsauken; N.J., Army Sgt. Donald Walters, 33, Salem, Ore., Army Spc. James Kiehl, 22, Comfort, Texas, Army Pvt. Brandon Sloan, 19, Bedford Heights, Ohio, Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa, 22, Tuba City, Ariz., Army Spc. Edgar Hernandez, 21, Mission, Texas, Army Spc. Joseph Hudson, 23, Alamogordo, N.M., Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson, 30, Fort Bliss, Texas, Army Pfc. Patrick Miller, 23, Park City, Kan,, Army Pvt. Ruben Estrella-Soto, 18, El Paso, Texas.
Source: Compiled by Last Firebase Veterans Archives Project from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
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REMARKS:
Salem, Ore. Army Sgt. Donald Walters, 33, joined the Army after graduating from North Salem High and served in the first Gulf War guarding captured Iraqi soldiers, according to his sister, Kimberly Cieslak.
"He came back pretty traumatized from that experience," Cieslak said. "He told us he had to see way too many dead people, and the children were the worst part."
The father of three young daughters, Sgt. Walters was listed as missing after a 507th Maintenance Company convoy was ambushed near the town of An Nasiriyah March 23 on the road to Baghdad. Iraqi soldiers attacked after it took a wrong turn into enemy terrain.
Sgt. Walters was serving most recently as a cook, but was reassigned to a unit that trucked water and supplies to the front-line troops, Cieslak said
. "He's a great guy, he's just full of life," Norman Walters said of his son. "He loves life, he loves people, he loves his children."

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