BANGOR (AP) – A 24-year-old Army sergeant from Addison was killed when his Humvee struck a land mine in eastern Afghanistan, the Bangor Daily News reported.
Sgt. Nicholes Golding, who was serving with the 10th Mountain Division, was a 1998 graduate of Narraguagus High School and the father of a 6-month-old daughter he never got to see.
Darwin Golding, an Addison lobsterman, was notified of his son’s death Friday, an hour after he saw a television news report about a U.S. casualty in Afghanistan, the newspaper reported in Tuesday’s editions.
“I am definitely proud of my boy,” Golding said as word of his son’s death spread through the small towns of western Washington County. “I always have been. Ever since 9-11, Nicky was bound and determined to go to Afghanistan.
Nicholes Golding, who leaves behind his wife, Heidi, and two children, joined the Army straight out of high school in 1998.
He left for Afghanistan last summer and was scheduled to return home May 1.
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