Iraq and Afghanistan wars, RIP US Troops - U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum

ViolaLee · #1 (**permalink**) 08-31-2006

I wish I had found this page sooner. A friend on PD posted it with a link to his friend who recently was killed in the war in Iraq. I would like to start a page to honor all our soldiers who give their lives to fight for our country. If each day, some of us could go to this site - The Iraq Page and post about a soldier we can honor their memories and never forget the price we are paying for this war. Here is the most recent soldier who gave his life for us.

August 29, 2006 The 21-year-old Hebron, Ky., resident, Christopher T Warndorf, died Tuesday in Iraq's Al Anbar Province. RIP Christopher.

ViolaLee · #2 (**permalink**) 09-01-2006

Donald E. Champlin died on August 28.

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Lance Cpl. Donald E. Champlin died Monday at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, officials said. He was injured while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq the day before, DOD said.

RIP Donald. He was a proud Marine, only in Iraq one month when an IED went off while he was on foot patrol. He was 28 from Louisianna.

Rakkasan · #3 (**permalink**) 09-01-2006

http://www.militarycity.com/valor/honor.html

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/ira...es/casualties/

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

here are a few more sites

Miranda · #4 (**permalink**) 09-01-2006

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Army Cpl. Jeremiah S. Cole

26, of Hiawatha, Kan.; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.; died Aug. 16 of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle during combat operations in Bermel, Afghanistan.

He trained and served with my bestfriend.

Here is the link to the page for those serving in Afghanistan.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2004/oef...s/2006.08.html

http://www.militarycity.com/valor/2059897.html

Thanks for starting the thread, Sam.

ViolaLee · #5 (**permalink**) 09-01-2006

This is my friend Jimmy's friend. He was from NYC.

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Times Union -- CLIFTON PARK -- A State Trooper from Clifton Park who took on a second tour of duty in Iraq because he wanted ``be with his men'' was killed during a fire fight outside of the Iraqi city of Fallujah Wednesday.

Marine Capt. John J. McKenna IV, 30, was killed alongside of his men, Marine Lance Corporal Michael Glover of New York City. Both were with the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Division, Fox Company.

Family members said McKenna may have been rescuing or taking over Glover's position when he was shot by a sniper and killed.

Rest in peace.

ViolaLee · #6 (**permalink**) 09-01-2006

The United Kingdom's Cpl Cornish died one month ago when a mortar round was fired into a multi-national base in Basra. Rest in Peace.

ViolaLee · #7 (**permalink**) 09-01-2006

Keith Matthew Maupin

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United States Staff Sergeant Keith Matthew "Matt" Maupin was captured by Iraqi insurgents on April 9, 2004, while serving in Iraq after his convoy came under attack by rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire near Baghdad, Iraq. On June 28, 2004, Al Jazeera reported he was executed by his captors who shot him in the head. On June 30, 2004, an Army spokesman said the video showing Maupin's alleged death was "totally inconclusive."

ViolaLee · #8 (**permalink**) 09-01-2006

Yesterday, August 30, 2006 Joshua Robert Hanson lost his life in Iraq.

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Star Tribune -- A second Minnesota soldier killed in Iraq this week was identified today as Staff Sgt. Joshua Robert Hanson, 27, of Dent, Minn.

Hanson died near Khalidiyah, Iraq, on Aug. 30 of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle.

On Sunday, Spc. Qixing Lee, 20, of Minneapolis died from a bomb while on foot patrol just north of Baghdad. Lee was among four American soldiers killed in the attack, and all of them were members of the 1st Battalion of the 66th Armored Regiment, based at Fort Hood, Texas, an Army spokesman said.

Hanson was assigned to the Minnesota Army National Guard’s Company A, 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 136th Infantry, based in Detroit Lakes, Minn. Six other soldiers from Alpha Company were wounded during the incident and returned to duty, according to a Guard news release.

Hanson’s unit was described as a combat arms unit consisting of soldiers primarily from Detroit Lakes and Bemidji. Members of Alpha Company mobilized with the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division last fall and deployed to Iraq in March.

“The loss of our brother, Staff Sgt. Joshua Hanson, is felt across the state of Minnesota,” Major General Larry Shellito, the Adjutant General of Minnesota, said in a statement. “It’s our priority to assist the Hanson family during this difficult time. I ask that all Minnesotans take time to reflect in a moment of silence to honor this young hero.”

More than 40 soldiers with Minnesota ties have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Rest in peace Joshua.

The Iraq Page

ViolaLee · #9 (**permalink**) 09-02-2006

Kenneth M. Cross

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The News Tribune -- A local Stryker brigade soldier based in Iraq's capital city was killed in a roadside bomb explosion Sunday, according to family members.

Army Cpl. Kenneth Cross, 21, of Parkland, Wis., was a driver on one of the eight-wheeled Stryker vehicles. The Department of Defense had released no information on Cross' death by Tuesday morning. His parents said Cross was the type of person who knew what he wanted in life.

“He was a fun kid — always smiling, laughing, joking — you never knew what he was going to do,” father Michael Cross told The Daily Telegram in Superior, Wis.

Mother Elizabeth Cross said her son dropped out of high school and earned his general education diploma because he wanted to go right into the service. She also said her son loved children and wanted to be a soldier since he was a small boy.

“He was up to mischief most of the time,” she said.

He met his wife, Heidi of Steilacoom, Wash., through an online dating service and the two were friends for a time before deciding to get married quickly after they began dating.

“He was always doing something goofy to make me laugh even on the bad days,” Heidi Cross said. “He treated me like a queen and an angel. I don’t think we ever had a bad moment.”

She also said she spoke to her husband two hours before his death. “People say I’m pretty lucky to have talked to him right before it happened,” she said, grateful she was able to tell him she loved him, “I don’t know how many times.”

Rest in peace Kenneth.

Rakkasan · #10 (**permalink**) 09-02-2006

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.

ViolaLee · #11 (**permalink**) 09-02-2006

I guess not Rakkasan. I am pretty upset that this thread couldn't stay pristine. I wonder if the mods could move the offending posts here. Rakkasan it's 6 am here and I just woke up from a dream where you made a new thread for those guys to argue it out. I just did so, thanks for the idea.

So everyone who wants to argue about soldiers please go here and do it. Thanks for joining me in what this thread is all about Rakk.

ViolaLee · #12 (**permalink**) 09-02-2006

Thanks Mrs M. Have you checked the site - The Iraq Page?

This young man died Wednesday.

Colin J. Wolfe

He was 18.

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A Camp Lejeune-based Marine was killed in western Iraq Wednesday, his father said.

Pfc. Colin J. Wolfe, 18, of Manassas, Va., was on patrol in Habbaniyah in Anbar province when his truck rolled over an improvised bomb, his father, Mark Wolfe, said in a telephone interview Friday.

"He was a passenger in a truck, and basically it went off right underneath him," Wolfe said.

Colin Wolfe was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force. First Lt. Barry Edwards, a spokesman for the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, said Wolfe had joined the Marines in July 2005 and joined his unit in January.

Wolfe had a strong sense of patriotism, and the elite image of the Marine Corps had appealed to him when he was growing up, his father said. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, there was no question what he would do when he graduated from Osbourn High School last year.

Off duty, in many ways he was a typical 18-year-old Marine, his father said. "He liked to goof off, play video games, find some beer and girls."

Rest in peace Colin.

Rakkasan · #13 (**permalink**) 09-02-2006

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Originally Posted by Samantha

Rakkasan for real? wowieeee freaky. Cool.

but dont think i am gonna now start voting like you

here is another hero

Dennis J Flanagan

INVERNESS - Army Sgt. Dennis J. Flanagan, 22, of Citrus County died Friday in Iraq when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was patrolling in the city of Al Hawijah, the Department of Defense announced this afternoon.

Flanagan graduated from Lecanto High School in 2001 and was planning to attend Florida State University. But the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks caused him to enlist in the Army, his family said.

On Monday, an American flag flew at half-mast in the front yard of the family's home in rural Citrus.

Army officials told the grieving family that their son was on patrol when the bomb went off as they passed by around 10:30 a.m. Friday. Three other soldiers were also killed, and the driver survived and is in a hospital, they said. They were told that Sgt. Flanagan was wearing full body armor and the Humvee he rode in was also heavily armored, but the bomb was just too powerful.

"We last heard from him around the first of the year, although he tried to call us last week but we weren't home," said his mother, Patricia Flanagan.

Flanagan was an active student at Lecanto High, where he ran cross country for four years, his parents said. He also made the varsity soccer squad and was cadet commander of the Civil Air Patrol squadron of the school.

In the Army, Sgt. Flanagan was assigned to the 101st Airborne. His parents said he was part of the initial assault of Iraq. He went back for his second tour of combat duty in September, they said.

Miranda · #14 (**permalink**) 09-02-2006

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The care packages from family were still en route to Iraq when enemy fire took the life of the intended recipient: Marine Lance Cpl. Kevin Adam Lucas.

The 20-year-old from Greensboro, N.C., was killed May 26 while conducting a security patrol in Anbar province, authorities said.

Family members, who learned the news three days before Memorial Day, gathered with other mourners yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery to remember a son, a fellow Marine and a friend.

"Adam at a very young age knew he wanted to serve his country," Lt. Ron Nordan, a Navy chaplain, told the dozens of people who assembled at graveside to honor Lucas -- known to family and friends as "Adam."

Many bowed their heads, wiping away tears, as a bugler played taps. Marines who were friends of Lucas's assembled behind the family and saluted as a seven-member rifle squad fired three volleys to honor the fallen Marine.

Also attending the service were more than 40 denim- and leather-clad members of the Patriot Guard Riders, motorcycle enthusiasts who attend burials of fallen service members to shield grieving families from the intrusion of antiwar protesters.

ViolaLee · #15 (**permalink**) 09-02-2006

Rest in peace Dennis and Kevin. Rakkasan, I wouldn't even imagine such a thing. Slon please go to this thread to discuss it. Miranda, I'm going to Okracoke next week

There is no picture of this soldier on the Iraq page yet. He was from California.

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David J. Almazan
Saturday, September 02 2006 @ 07:28 AM GMT+4

Sergeant David J. Almazan, 27, of Van Nuys, California, died on Sunday, August 27, 2006, of injuries suffered when a makeshift bomb exploded near his Humvee during combat operations in Hit.

Almazan was a combat medic in the 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armoured Division, headquartered in Friedberg, Germany.

He is survived by his wife, who lives in Chino, Calif., and his parents, who live in Van Nuys.

Rest in peace David.

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