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Poll_Blind

(23,864 posts) Fri May 31, 2013, 01:29 PM May 2013

REPOST: Great 1-page fact sheet on the Afghan war with all the important bits highlighted

It's also a handy reference for wars in general, both past and future.

RIP Staff Sgt. Joshua A. Melton, 26, of Carlyle, IL. Killed in 2009 alongside Sgt. Paul G. Smith, 43, of Peoria, IL. when an I.E.D. exploded next to their vehicle in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

PB

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REPOST: Great 1-page fact sheet on the Afghan war with all the important bits highlighted (Original Post) Poll_Blind May 2013 OP

I get what you're doing, but you are dishonoring this man and his family with a cheap trick. Buzz Clik May 2013 #1

Best way I know of to honor servicemen is to do what we can to keep 'em out of pine boxes. Poll_Blind May 2013 #3

Well that sure is convenient... Pelican May 2013 #4

What a heartwrenching photo. nt narnian60 May 2013 #2

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)

1. I get what you're doing, but you are dishonoring this man and his family with a cheap trick.

Reply to Poll_Blind (Original post)

Fri May 31, 2013, 01:33 PM

May 2013

Poll_Blind

(23,864 posts)

3. Best way I know of to honor servicemen is to do what we can to keep 'em out of pine boxes.

Reply to Buzz Clik (Reply #1)

Fri May 31, 2013, 01:41 PM

May 2013

And sometimes that involves reminding everyone that they're still going into them.

PB

Pelican

(1,156 posts)

4. Well that sure is convenient...

Reply to Poll_Blind (Reply #3)

Fri May 31, 2013, 01:48 PM

May 2013

narnian60

(3,510 posts)

2. What a heartwrenching photo. nt

Reply to Poll_Blind (Original post)

Fri May 31, 2013, 01:41 PM

May 2013

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