Location: 3451
Date: 5/26/2007
Rank: Private 1st Class
Branch: U.S. Army
Operation: Operation Iraqi Freedom
PFC. Charles Hester was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, with the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, WA. He was killed on May 26th, 2007 when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Baghdad. Hester had been in the Army since May 2004 and arrived in Fort Lewis in September 2004, where he was as signed to the 3rd Brigade.
Charles Hester was an avid guitar player who once made the pilgrimage to Jimi Hendrix’s grave, where he buried a guitar pick. He loved the oldies, his former squad leader Staff Sgt Chess Johnson remembers, and he could never come up with a song that Charles didn’t know the lyrics to.
Charles was a devoted and loving father, who was wrapped around his daughter Elizabeth’s little finger. His is also survived by his wife, Roxanne Slate.