Family: Son of former Green Bay Packer killed in Iraq #1202

[saigon68]

Family: Son of former Green Bay Packer killed in Iraq

http://www.gogreenbay.com/page.html?article=128608




Isaiah Hunt, of Suamico, Wis., is shown in an undated photo provided by his family. Army Pfc. Isiah Hunt, 20, was the son of former Green Bay Packers player Mike Hunt. (AP Photo/Family)





News-Chronicle
GREEN BAY, Wis. - The soldier son of a former Green Bay Packer has died in an accident in Iraq, his father said Monday.

Mike Hunt told reporters the family was informed that his 20-year-old son, Army Pfc. Isaiah Hunt of Suamico, died in the arms of his commander after the accident Sunday night just north of Baghdad. He reportedly fell from a vehicle that collided with another one.

He was a driver with the 82nd Airborne Division out of Fort Bragg, N.C., the family said.

Mike Hunt said Isaiah had been in Iraq for four months and looked forward to coming home for Christmas. He graduated from Bay Port High School in 2002.

i CASUALTIES CONFIRMS AS # 1202 http://icasualties.org/oif/

[Gelliebeans]

1. Awww another baby

just starting out his life, I am so depressed I find it harder and harder to visit that site :(

[LynnTheDem]

2. You're telling me...I help the count on that site.

:(

[Gelliebeans]

7. How do you do it my friend?

I can't stand feeling so helpless about this war....:(

[LynnTheDem]

11. My husband was in Iraq for a year...I had to do SOMEthing...

So I got involved with Pat & Michael on ICC (the "graveyard" shift).

I felt if I were the one getting the names first, my husband's name wouldn't be one of them. Several names from his unit did appear. :(

But he & I were both lucky; his name never came up -altho there was one very close call- and he made it home safe & soundish.

It's very difficult to do; we have world-wide newsfeeds we search through, day & night after day & night, and the rest of the world is NOT like the US State Stenomedia...the rest of the world shows the blunt gut-wrenching REALITY, in words, photos and video. Then we also search for hometown obits and stories on WHO the killed soldier was; his hobbies, his family & friends. So they're not just some casualty number that most Americans don't give a flying fck about.

Michael gets hordes of hate email, how "anti-American" we are to bother counting our dead. Yes, like good patriots, we should all smile and shop and forget allllll about the dead American men, women and TEENAGERS that are dead because bush is a total fcking LIAR.

WE WILL NOT LET THEM LIE FORGOTTEN. THEY COUNT, THEIR LIVES COUNTED, and THEY WILL BE COUNTED.

[saigon68]

15. Thank You for your service to our country

The free part of our country, that still has a brain and is capable of rational thought, love and human emotion.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. ::Hugs:: and from a navy wife

Now he is a vet, to a fellow Military wife, I know what you mean about those people showing up at special hours of the night with those horrible news.

Keep the good job, the rest of us will cover your back...

We all have different things to do in this battle, and it is a battle.

[Gelliebeans]

20. YOU and YOUR HUSBAND

are WONDERFUL human beings and WE ALL THANK YOU
:hug:

[LynnTheDem]

21. Ta very much!

:hug:

[AngryOldDem]

22. Thanks

I cannot think of a more appropriate way to honor and salute these soldiers.

They deserve always to be remembered. Your work, as difficult as it is, is ensuring just that.

[donkeyotay]

31. Thank you for what you do. We not only deserve the truth

We need it. Funny how lying figures so prominently in the new pseudo-patriotism. Bless the people who get the hate mail. You folks are the real patriots.

"Michael gets hordes of hate email, how "anti-American" we are to bother counting our dead."

edit for typo

[blurp]

3. 40,000 a year die in auto accidents

I sometimes wonder if maybe the auto industry will be litigated the way the tobacco industry has been.

Too many kids dying.

[physioex]

4. Not necessarily.....

Many are caused by driver neglect such as speeding and failure to yield. I am not sure what youre saying has anything to do with this thread.

[RummyTheDummy]

5. This is a Freeper argument

Straight from the Hannity files. Bring up the casualties and they launch into "what about the 40k who die ever year in auto accidents in this country, huh? what about that?"

It's a ridiculous, stupid, knuckle dragger argument. To save those people's lives it would take 40,000 seperate "miracles". To stop or prevent the entire situation in Iraq from ever happening it took the bad decision of ONE man.

[LynnTheDem]

6. And yet 2700 Americans dead in 911 "CHANGED THE UNIVERSE!!!"

rightwingnuts are such illogical innane stupid fcks.

[saigon68]

9. Absolutely-- they have the sheep thinking the War is just a few

traffic accidents.

No big deal--- Our Reprick congress coward always shows up at these funerals and cries a tear of how they died for "FREEDOM" . He is a lap dog of large neocon corporations who have given him millions of dollars for his services as Monika's stand-in.

WHAT A DISGUSTING PIG, this Cowardly reprick is, what a shill. I hope some day some family member gives a tongue lashing to him. But he has at least 3 longshoreman dock worker (apologys to the union guys) type body guards protecting his sorry ass at all times.

[physioex]

13. Hammity is such a slime ball...

I can't stand the guy.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. You mean to tell me it isn't

People have to remember Hannity NEVER served, he will never see the horror

For him this is still X-BOX with invincible mode on.

[Gelliebeans]

8. bastards

like hannity could never admit that their boy king made bad decisions.
Did I say just how much I despise these people.

[physioex]

12. Luckily...

We are smart enough to take them on..... :)

[theHandpuppet]

14. It also reveals...

... that beneath the chest-beating bluster, Freepers have no real respect for those in uniform, not even those that have died in this war.

[LynnTheDem]

18. Freepers are total chickenshit COWARDS

They worship their bush-god, but do they join the military to go die for their bush-god? HELL NO!

Just like the chickenshit coward Commander in Thief they worship; they "support" wars as long as others do the fighting & dying.

You can spot a freeper by the big yellow stripe down their spineless backs. And by the fact they have absolutely no brain matter whatsoever.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. For freepers the military are only tools to be

used and expended, kind of like bullets

They have no respect for the men and women in uniform

And your best clue is under all that bravado, most of them are AFRAID of actually volunteering and PUTTING their assess on the line.

Left, left, left right left, I wish I could push them when they are forced to join due the draft.

Trust me, would love to push these idiots, in Bootcamp...

GIVE ME 100 Recruit!

It may actually do them some good

[stopping by]

35. May I point out...

I'm a freeper and I signed up for the reserves shortly after September 11th. There's a very good chance I'll get mobilized in the next year.

In my young Republicans group, we generally couldn't meet on the first weekend of the month because so many of the members were reservists.

When I was at boot camp, the other recruits I talked to were overwhelmingly Republican. In fairness, this group may not have been an unbiased sample of the military. It consisted of older recruits who had signed up in the year after September 11th.

Free Republic is filled with current and former members of the military. Check out our veteran's day threads. (I noticed DU also has a lot of people with military backgrounds.)

I'm glad that DU is here to challenge me. I read it almost every day, because I want to challenge myself. I want to read stuff that I might not agree with, because I might learn something. I respect your right to have differing opinions.

But please don't get your facts wrong. Our military is filled with people on both sides of the spectrum.

P.s. You could ban me if you want, but I'm not going to be making posts trying to present the conservative point of view. Therefore, I won't interfere with the general aim of this website. I may make a factual point every now and then, but not tie it to an argument. (E.g., "that should be 3.1 billion, not million.") I may also ask a question here and there. Anyway, I hope you'll let me stick around.

[genieroze]

36. Conservative?

Bush isn't conservative, he's a Reich Wing Nutjob. My favorite conservative is Barry Goldwater and he hated Nixon. I didn't blindly follow Kerry, but this election was a dishonest one and we are turning into a fascist theocracy. Barry Goldwater had something to say about this, just read my sig.

[genieroze]

37. Where's my sig?

Our problem is with ... the religious extremists ...
who want to destroy everybody who doesn't agree with
them. I see them as betrayers of the fundamental principles
of conservatism. A lot of so-called conservatives today
don't know what the word means. (1994)

conservative Republican,presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater

[physioex]

39. I can't speak for the administrators...

As long us don't start calling people names and are willing to be civilized, you are welcome to give us your side and I am willing to listen....

[recovering democrat]

44. Here's a challenge for you.

I have no idea how many soldiers are members of any political party, religion, or moral beliefs, and don't presume to guess. Since they ARE solders, they chose to put their lives on the line for my country, so those who have served have EARNED my respect for their positions. Until reading your post, I have NEVER seen any respect shown to that kind of diversity by any freeper. The idea that anyone in the military could be a Democrat, or the idea that any Democrat could support the military, is completely ignored on that site. Why don't you post this on Free Republic and see what kind of reaction you get? Why don't you try to convince them, like you are doing to us, to respect differing opinions.

Try this link to the "Chickenhawks Hall of Shame": http://www.symbolman.com/chickenhawks.html
Be sure you stick around through the entire thing - there is a fine quote from a past Republican President at the end. Democrats tend to agree with that statement; the current President and his supporters obviously do not.

My son is an Independent who voted for John Kerry in this election. He enlisted after September 11 too. He didn't enlist in the reserves. He enlisted in the Army. He enlisted in the Infantry. There is not a "very good chance" he will be mobilized; he WILL be mobilized. He doesn't get to go to any "young" anything meetings on the weekends. Why don't you join him?

[stopping by]

49. Two things I won't do on DU

1. Defend conservative principles. People don't come to DU to read that. The downside to that is I may not reply to posts. On DU, the liberals can have the last word. Your house, your rules.

2. Defend my personal actions. I figure if they come up (as with my last post) people can judge for themselves. If people think that signing up for the reserves after September 11th instead of active duty is cowardly, they can think that. Others might see it in a different light. But I'm not going to eat up DUs bandwidth trying to defend myself.

[recovering democrat]

51. Obviously you misunderstood my purpose.

Please understand that the purpose of my comments were not to expect any defense by you, nor did I presume anything at all about your conservative principles or your personal actions. I honor your interest in challenging yourself, both by your interest in DU and in your military service to your country.

Your original post included the statement "I'm glad that DU is here to challenge me. I read it almost every day, because I want to challenge myself. I want to read stuff that I might not agree with, because I might learn something. I respect your right to have differing opinions.

I regret my words did not adequately reflect my purpose to you. I offered a challenge of thought for you to consider.

[blurp]

42. RTFA.

The soldier died in a vehicle collision. Death in auto accidents happens to be an important issue for me. That's why I mensioned it.

But go ahead, be a jerk.

[blurp]

40. The soldier apparently died in a vehicle collision, not combat.

That's the link.

The lack of interest in reducing deaths caused by auto accidents has infuriated me for a long time.

[physioex]

41. Trying to reduce auto accidents is a noble effort....

And I commend you for that (I was involved in MADD myself). Perhaps one day when we are not fighting wars of choice, I can spend more time in that effort. However at this time I am more focused on the innocent Iraqi civilians and the US troops that didn't have die. And oh yes don't forget the recuruitment tool Shrub has given to (I am not really concerned about him) Osama Bin Landen.

[blurp]

43. That's fair. Thanks.

And thanks for being involved in MADD.

[physioex]

45. Take care....

:hi:

[deutsey]

23. Are they being killed by RPGs?

Landmines in our highways?

Insurgents attacking rush-hour commuters?

If not, then this 40k figure is irrelevant in terms of making a comparison to casualties in Iraq.

[blurp]

46. I'm not making a comparison

If not, then this 40k figure is irrelevant in terms of making a comparison to casualties in Iraq.

That's true.

The article only mensioned that he was killed in a vehicle collision which reminded me of the import issue of auto accident fatalities.

I don't think it's taken seriously enough and that infuriates me. It's an important issue to me.

[auburngrad82]

34. Hey Blurp. Why would you post a freeper argument then disable your

profile? Just curious...

[blurp]

48. Why don't you just accuse me of being a freeper?

#1 My profile isn't "disabled" whatever that means. It just doesn't contain any information except my avatar.

#2 The state of my profile hasn't changed at all recently. So assuming I posted, then "disbled" it is an error.

#3 What I posted wasn't an argument. It was a reminder to everyone about the issue of auto accident fatalities, an important issue to me. If you had read the article, you would have seen that it says the soldier was killed in a vehicle collision.

Any other questions?

[Nestea]

52. That's not true.

Even if your profile doesn't have any info, it will still show your date that you registered. It will also give your gender(m,f,undeclared) and your post count. Unless you disabled it, that is.

[Guaranteed]

10. Mike Hunt?

I'm sorry....

[AntiCoup2K4]

25. Yeah, I caught that too

But thought any jokes would be in bad taste under the circumstances :evilfrown:

[livinbella]

27. I don't get it

What about him?

[MissB]

28. It is a very old, sexual joke. (nt)

[livinbella]

30. O

[phasev]

29. Mike Hunt

He is survived by his girlfriend Ivanna Tinkle

[Blue_Tires]

33. lept of the screen at me

i didn't want to be the first to mention it, though

[seemslikeadream]

24. HOW MANY MORE GEORGIE, HOW MANY MORE?

[mindfulNJ]

26. I have a son his age..

dammit,dammit,dammit....this is f***ing INSANE!!!!!!:cry:

[daleo]

32. It is up to 1209 now on icasualties

Lots of updates overnight. November 15 had a lot of deaths, considering that the Fallujah mission was supposed to be accomplished by then.

[Kukesa]

38. Kick! A sad one. n/t

[Forkboy]

47. Until it's Brett Favre no one will notice

:-(

[haunce]

50. Isaiah Hunt

Isaiah Hunt RIP young manO8)