Damn :(

[tjwash]

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OBITUARIES
Military deaths
May 13, 2007

The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq:

Matthew L. Alexander, 21, of Gretna, Neb.; corporal, Army. Alexander was among six soldiers killed May 6 when a roadside bomb exploded near their Stryker vehicle in Baqubah, Iraq, northeast of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division at Ft. Lewis, Wash.

Anthony M. Bradshaw, 21, of San Antonio; corporal, Army. Bradshaw was among six soldiers killed May 6 when a roadside bomb exploded near their Stryker vehicle in Baqubah, Iraq, northeast of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division at Ft. Lewis, Wash.

Bradly D. Conner, 41, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; sergeant major, Army. Conner was killed Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle near Hillah, Iraq, south of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group at Ft. Lewis, Wash.

Robert J. Dixon, 27, of Minneapolis; specialist, Army. Dixon was killed May 6 when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division at Ft. Riley, Kan.

Kelly B. Grothe, 21, of Spokane, Wash.; specialist, Army Reserve. Grothe was one of two reservists killed May 3 when a roadside bomb exploded near their armored personnel carrier in Ramadi, Iraq, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to Company B, 321st Engineer Battalion in Hayden Lake, Idaho.

Larry I. Guyton, 22, of Brenham, Texas; private first class, Army. Guyton died May 5 in Balad, Iraq, north of Baghdad, of injuries suffered a day earlier when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in the capital, killing a second soldier. Guyton was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Hood, Texas.

Christopher N. Hamlin, 24, of London, Ky.; staff sergeant, Army. Hamlin was killed May 4 when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Baghdad. A second soldier injured in the blast died the next day. Hamlin was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Hood, Texas.

Jason R. Harkins, 25, of Clarkesville, Ga.; sergeant, Army. Harkins was among six soldiers killed May 6 when a roadside bomb exploded near their Stryker vehicle in Baqubah, Iraq, northeast of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division at Ft. Lewis, Wash.

James W. Harrison Jr., 47, of Missouri; colonel, Army. Harrison was one of two soldiers shot to death May 6 outside Pul-i-Charki prison east of Kabul, Afghanistan, by an Afghan soldier described by the Afghan Defense Ministry as mentally ill. The gunman was killed by other Afghan troops. Harrison was assigned to the Army Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan.

Roy L. Jones III, 21, of Houston; private first class, Army. Jones was killed Thursday when his unit was attacked with small-arms fire in Diwaniya, Iraq, south of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 984th Military Police Company, 759th Military Police Battalion at Ft. Carson, Colo.

Christopher S. Kiernan, 37, of Virginia Beach, Va.; staff sergeant, Army. Kiernan was killed by a sniper May 6 while on patrol in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Hood, Texas.

Joel W. Lewis, 28, of Sandia Park, N.M.; sergeant, Army. Lewis was among six soldiers killed May 6 when a roadside bomb exploded near their Stryker vehicle in Baqubah, Iraq, northeast of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division at Ft. Lewis, Wash.

Kyle A. Little, 20, of West Boylston, Mass.; specialist, Army. Little was one of two soldiers killed Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in Salman Pak, Iraq, south of Baghdad. He was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division at Ft. Benning, Ga.

Kenneth N. Mack, 42, of Fort Worth; master sergeant, Marine Corps. Mack was one of two Marines killed May 5 when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Iraq's Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Virgil C. Martinez, 33, of West Valley, Utah; staff sergeant, Army. Martinez was killed May 6 when a roadside bomb exploded near his unit and it was attacked with small-arms fire while on patrol in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division in Schweinfurt, Germany.

Dan H. Nguyen, 24, of Sugar Land, Texas; specialist, Army. Nguyen was killed Tuesday when his unit was attacked with small-arms fire in Tahrir, Iraq, southeast of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Hood, Texas.

Walter K. O'Haire, 20, of Lynn, Mass.; lance corporal, Marine Corps. O'Haire was killed in combat Wednesday in Iraq's Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Timothy P. Padgett, 28, of DeFuniak Springs, Fla.; sergeant, Army. Padgett was killed in a firefight Tuesday when his unit was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and small-arms fire in the Sangin district of southern Afghanistan's Helmand province. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group at Ft. Bragg, N.C.

Charles O. Palmer II, 36, of Manteca, Calif.; corporal, Marine Corps. Palmer was one of two Marines killed May 5 when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Iraq's Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 8th Communication Battalion, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Jerome J. Potter, 24, of Tacoma, Wash.; private first class, Army. Potter was killed May 3 when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Hood, Texas.

Michael A. Pursel, 19, of Clinton, Utah; corporal, Army. Pursel was among six soldiers killed May 6 when a roadside bomb exploded near their Stryker vehicle in Baqubah, Iraq, northeast of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division at Ft. Lewis, Wash.

Sameer Rateb, 22, of Absecon, N.J.; sergeant, Army. Rateb died of noncombat-related injuries May 6 at Forward Operating Base Summerall in Baiji, Iraq, north of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, N.C.

Vincenzo Romeo, 23, of Lodi, N.J.; staff sergeant, Army. Romeo was among six soldiers killed May 6 when a roadside bomb exploded near their Stryker vehicle in Baqubah, Iraq, northeast of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division at Ft. Lewis, Wash.

Wilberto Sabalu Jr., 36, of Chicago; master sergeant, Army. Sabalu was one of two soldiers shot to death May 6 outside the Pul-i-Charki prison east of Kabul, Afghanistan, by an Afghan soldier described by the Afghan Defense Ministry as mentally ill. The gunman was killed by other Afghan troops. Sabalu was assigned to the U.S. Military Police School at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo.

Coby G. Schwab, 25, of Puyallup, Wash.; staff sergeant, Army Reserve. Schwab was one of two reservists killed May 3 when a roadside bomb exploded near their armored personnel carrier in Ramadi, Iraq, west of Baghdad. He was assigned to Company B, 321st Engineer Battalion in Hayden Lake, Idaho.

Blake C. Stephens, 25, of Pocatello, Idaho; sergeant, Army. Stephens was one of two soldiers killed Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in Salman Pak, Iraq, south of Baghdad. He was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division at Ft. Benning, Ga.

Jason W. Vaughn, 29, of Iuka, Miss.; sergeant, Army. Vaughn was killed Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Baqubah, Iraq, northeast of Baghdad. He was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division at Ft. Lewis, Wash.

Sources: Department of Defense, Times staff reports and the Associated Press

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War casualties

Total U.S. deaths*:

- In and around Iraq**: 3,382



- In and around Afghanistan***: 321

- Other locations***: 61

* Includes military and Department of Defense-employed civilian personnel killed in action and in nonhostile circumstances

:cry:

[TwilightGardener]

1. Rest in peace, warriors...

:cry: :patriot:

[leftchick]

2. very sad

dying for imperial america and corporate profits.

[babylonsister]

3. ...

one is too many. RIP, soldiers.:(

[deutsey]

4. That was in just one week?

:evilfrown:

[Straight Shooter]

5. How many would be alive now if bush/rummy had bothered to guard the ordnance when we first invaded?

:grr:

[KamaAina]

6. I've often wondered about that myself

it's almost as though they wanted an insurgency to emerge eventually... :tinfoilhat:

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. How many would be alive if the US Supreme Court hadn't overstepped their bounds in 2000?

:grr:



They had no Constitutional right to call the election for bush! :grr:

[iamahaingttta]

7. Oh my god!

In no particular order:

Fuck you, God!
Fuck you, Allah!
Fuck you, Taliban!
Fuck you, Al Qaeda!
Fuck you, Richard B. Cheney!
Fuck you, Carlyle Group!
Fuck you, cakewalk!
Fuck you, Judith Miller!
Fuck you, Usama bin Laden!
Fuck you, Ronald Reagan!
Fuck you, Bush Crime Family!
Fuck you, Hezbollah!
Fuck you, Israel!
Fuck you, Richard "Prince of Darkness" Perle!
Fuck you, Donald Rumsfeld!
Fuck you, Ahmed Chalabi!
Fuck you, Saddam Hussein!
Fuck you, whoever killed Pat Tillman
Fuck you, Lynndie England!
Fuck you, Sunni and Shia insurgents!
Fuck you, 28 percenters!
Fuck you, anybody who thought that these goddamn neo-cons had ANYTHING in mind other than stealing the oil under the sands in Iraq, and that their agenda is ANYTHING other than to kill as many people on the planet as possible because they want it all for themselves and that they want to destroy government and privatize everything!

I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!! YOU PEOPLE NEED TO GET OUT OF YOUR FUCKING CHAIRS, AND GO TO THE WINDOW AND OPEN IT UP AND YELL AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS "I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!"

What a waste. All those kids. What a waste...

[MikeNearMcChord]

20. I feel your anger!!! Not to quibble with you on a point.

But why the anger at Lynddie England? She was a pawn that was sacrificed by the higher ups at Abu Ghraib. The real villains were those high NCO's and Officers who ran that prison as well as the private contractors who did the real torture. I say F*&k You Haliburton, Blackwater and the Intelligence agencies who do renditions of innocent Iraqis and Afghans citizens in the name of the American people.

[Madspirit]

22. Yes

She was an already somewhat disturbed young woman who should never have been there in the first place. She also did exactly what she was "supposed" to do according to her Higher Ups. Her profile, way before this, showed she shouldn't be in that kind of situation which is EXACTLY why she was there...doing exactly as they wanted her to do. A pawn and a PATHOLOGICAL Sheeple. SHE could have acted no differently. THEY count on that.
Lee

[iamahaingttta]

26. She's a symbol

Of course, you're both right.
She's a symbol of what you are talking about.
A symbol of how they use suckers and saps to do the dirty work.
I feel more pity than anger towards her.
Still...

And of course, my Fuck You list is far from complete!

[mconvente]

8. Vincenzo Romeo - close to home

He was from Lodi, NJ and I live about 15 minutes away from there. His loss was the cover story of the Bergen Record this Saturday. Vincenzo's fiance was wailing at his funeral... so sad

[monmouth]

13. The other soldier from Absecon, NJ (my childhood hometown),

breaks my heart, as they all do. God bless them and their families.

[Solly Mack]

9. dying to protect lies

[karlrschneider]

10. Over 3,400 now. THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED.

:grr:

http://www.icasualties.org/oif/

[Auggie]

11. So young...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

12. 19, 20, 22, 24?

Say, george, how old are your two spoiled daughters?

damn, double, and triple damn you.

[Spiffarino]

16. They could be my kids.

If Bush's Folly turns into a full-blown Middle East war, a draft could be right around the corner. A draft like the one Junior avoided.

Thanks a lot, Chicken George.

[joshcryer]

21. So young. :/ I looked up a few of their pictures. Too young.

Man.

[paparush]

14. I'm mailing this list to my Rep and both Senators.

[TacticalPeek]

15. Bummer.

A Poem That I Wrote In A High Fever

You who are lengthening your lives
with the best doctors and the best medicines
remember those who are shortening their lives
with the wars
that you in your long lives are not
preventing.

You who are again screwing
the younger generations
and winking at each other
the winking of your eyelids
is like the chill of the swinging shutters
in an empty house.


-- Yehuda Amichai

[FatDave]

30. 'Twas ever thus.

That poem is beautiful, its truth pathetic.

[Booster]

18. One of these brave soldiers has the first AND last name of my

nephew. When I read it in the paper I started to cry. What an absolute tradegy to lose all the soldiers.

[NightWatcher]

19. I'm finding it harder and harder to sit here and allow my government to do this

I probably need to sleep, but I am having a harder time living with myself as I sit here and silently allow my government to conduct this ilegal occupation.

[loudsue]

25. I feel the same, nightwatcher. It absolutely hurts all over.

And I feel sick to my stomach.

Have I mentioned how much I hate republicans? The supreme court that allowed this cabal. The rubber-stamp congress that gave the ok to false intelligence. And the filthy, evil neocons who have planned this to enrich themselves for lo these many years.

May every one of them burn in hell.

:kick:

[FatDave]

31. "Have I mentioned how much I hate republicans?"

Keep mentioning it. Scream it from the rooftops. It was REPUBLICANS who did this to you. It was REPUBLICANS who did this to your country. It's REPUBLICANS who've gotten rich from the loss of your jobs. They deserve to be demonized for the shit they've pulled. If only our candidates had the balls to do it too.

[lonestarnot]

23. I'm just home from a candlelight vigil.

[Madspirit]

24. What's funny

...in a not funny at all way... Bush would never consider these people HIS victims. ...and they are. Bush killed these soldiers.

...and RIP.
Lee

[Mad_Dem_X]

27. Dear God

There are no words...

[annm4peace]

28. send it to your legislature

Im copy and pasting and sending to my Senators and Rep.

[SEA and SWA vet]

29. Another Little Piece of My Heart

What to say!

[Mrspeeker]

32. the Volunteers

There was NO Draft, all these people signed up for this knowing damn well what they where getting into.
I don't feel remorse for them at all. I feel bad for all the Innocent people that have died because of them.
If there were no volunteers, there would have been no war!!!!

So support the volunteers, by volunteering, because the fucking magnets are only supporting another factory in China!!!

[provis99]

34. no, you are wrong. Volunteers do not know what they are getting into

I doubt if very many join up because they want to become killers. They join because of belief in the nobility of protecting the country, desire for college benefits, lack of job opportunities, family tradition, impression of pretty uniforms, and a host of other reasons. Once they sign on the line, all the recruiters promises are thrown out the window. They don't sign up to kill or be killed in a pointless war in Iraq. Shame on you.

[Eurobabe]

33. Yet the freeps are crying over Falwell

amazing isn't it? :wtf: