{"id":19279,"date":"2024-03-29T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=isenberg-benjamin-warren"},"modified":"2024-05-13T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:24:13","slug":"isenberg-benjamin-warren","status":"publish","type":"casualty","link":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=isenberg-benjamin-warren","title":{"rendered":"Isenberg, Benjamin Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: 9\/13\/2004<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rank<\/strong>: Sergeant<\/p>\n<p><strong>Branch<\/strong>: U.S. Army<\/p>\n<p><strong>Operation<\/strong>: Operation Iraqi Freedom<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"568\" height=\"716\" src=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/SPC-Benjamin-Warren-Isenberg.png\" alt=\"SPC Benjamin Isenberg\" class=\"wp-image-25557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/SPC-Benjamin-Warren-Isenberg.png 568w, https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/SPC-Benjamin-Warren-Isenberg-238x300.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Army Spc. Benjamin W. Isenberg 27, assigned to the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Battalion, 162<sup>nd<\/sup> Infantry, Oregon Army National Guard, Corvallis, Oregon was killed Sept. 13, 2004 when his military vehicle came under attack by small-arms fire and an improvised explosive device in Taji, Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one of his last e-mails home, Benjamin W. Isenberg said his 16-hour workdays were long and hot. \u201cThis could be a nice place, but I prefer high mountains and tall pine trees,\u201d He was stationed at Corvallis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isenberg was the fourth generation of his family to serve in the Army. He joined the Oregon National Guard in 1995 and graduated from Western Oregon University in 2000. An employee of the Oregon Forestry Department, he was involved in fighting forest fires and doing\\conservation work. \u201cHe had an impact on more people than we will ever know,\u201d said co-worker Patrick Cliner. \u201cHe was a gentle and caring person. He enjoyed doing presentations at schools, so he could ham it up with the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pastor Darwin Grimm said Isenberg was so popular in the community, he was deluged with calls asking if any help was needed with a memorial service. \u201cPeople called me by the dozens,\u201d he said. In my 54 years with the church, I\u2019ve never seen anything better than this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isenberg is survived by his wife, Rachel, and sons Jeremiah, and Kraig, his parents, LTC Robert and De Ann Isenberg of Moscow, Idaho; brothers, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Lt. Trevis Isenberg of Ft. Rucker, Ala., and Tim Isenberg of Oregon; and sister, Tanna Isenberg of Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"casualty-operation":[100],"casualty-tag":[106],"class_list":["post-19279","casualty","type-casualty","status-publish","hentry","casualty-operation-operation-iraqi-freedom","casualty-tag-idaho-casualty"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/19279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/casualty"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/19279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25559,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/19279\/revisions\/25559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"casualty-operation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-operation&post=19279"},{"taxonomy":"casualty-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-tag&post=19279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}