09-02-2006
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Member Since: Sep 2004
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Re: The Iraq Page, RIP soldiers
some people just dont get it do they sam?
http://homepage.mac.com/phil_giltner...in_Garvey.html
I knew Justin from about the time he was six. He was much like other kids, as far as I could tell.
He was also an exceptionally polite and happy kid. He and his sister Kristin were tighter than one normally meets. The two of them and their mother, Angie, were probably the closest family you could imagine.
Justin grew up to be a fine young man, proud to be an infantryman, and according to all those who met him, a man of character. In high school he signed up to be in the Vermont National Guard, and then he went active duty, into the 101st.
He was killed by an RPG attack on his unarmored Humvee just a few days before he was to be cycled out of the Army. Nineteen days after Bush's swaggering "Bring 'em on" comment.
The military funeral's pageantry helped to divert and focus our thoughts. The missing man roll call--performed by soldiers from Justin's platoon--was gut-wrenching, and you could hear the cracks in their voices and see the tears running down their faces. These men were not sissies.
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