panader0
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Sun Jul-25-10 09:18 PM
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Tucson soldier is laid to rest. Chris Moon |
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Edited on Sun Jul-25-10 09:28 PM by panader0
More than 1000 people showed up to pay tribute to Chris Moon, a high school baseball star turned paratrooper. Chris lost both legs to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, and died about a week later ina hospital in Germany. So many brave soldiers have died in this war, for some reason, this one got to me. I remember when he signed on to play ball for the U of Az., then quit school to enlist. Please Mr. President, end this mistake before we lose more of our promising young people. A picture of his funeral was on the front page of the Sunday paper. picture at: www.azstar.com
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murielm99
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Sun Jul-25-10 10:59 PM
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1. My small community just lost one, too. |
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His funeral was today. RIP, Justus Bartelt. I watched you grow up. You should have had a long life. http://www.saukvalley.com/articles/2010/07/21/r_zsenwuhbrtqnob8fazejq/index.xml
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Sun Jul-25-10 11:18 PM
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2. I received a lot of heat in town because I printed the biography |
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of a few of the fallen(from other states) in one of my letters(that had been previously printed in papers in articles)to show there's something beyond "supporting the generic troops".These are kids,siblings,husbands,daddies,uncles,nephews,friends...and their death needs to not be in vain.It needs to remind us that this isn't some anonymous war affecting someone else's kid.It is WAR,UGLY and who is it serving?
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