In the line of duty

News Danielle Nienajadlo joined the Army after graduating from Lewis and Clark High School in 1995 with the last name of Scheibner. She loved the military, was strong and fit, and spent 13 years as a soldier serving around the world, including in Iraq. Then her life fell apart. Duty killed Nienajadlo in 2009, said her mother, Lindsay Weidman, but it wasn’t battle wounds or an accident. It was an aggressive form of leukemia. She became ill after months of living and working near one of the notorious “burn pits” in Iraq. “It’s hard to accept that she is gone,” Weidman said. “She shouldn’t be.”

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