MARINE KILLED IN AL ANBAR # 2638

[saigon68]

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Title:
MARINE KILLED IN AL ANBAR
Release Date:
8/30/2006
Release Number:
06-08-03C
Description:
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – One Marine assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division died from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province August 29.
The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next of kin and release by the Department of Defense.

[Botany]

1. Blessings and prayers for his soul and his family & friends

One Marine :patriot:

:cry:

how many more george, how many?

[dipsydoodle]

2. Anyone got the 9/11 toll.

I'm interested to see when one figure overtakes the other.x(

[rodeodance]

3. maybe we can get out when we reach the 'eye for an eye" dictum?

[dipsydoodle]

4. I'm not a great believer in an eye for an eye.

I'm genuinely just curious. I suppose that as Afghanistan and Irag were both as a result of 9/11 they should be grouped together for this purpose. As those "wars" were efectively in retaliation for 9/11 when one figure exceeds the other it will further highlight the futility of it all.

[saigon68]

6. They died for Halliburton Profits

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war,
there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Ernest Hemingway-1938

[krispos42]

9. Then we will never leave

Because the Iraqis are owed about another 110,000 American lives.

Currently about 43 Iraqis die violently for every American soldier. This is about the same ratio as during the Vietnam war and the Black Hawk Down incident.

[dipsydoodle]

10. You're using Ward Churchill's arguement

which concluded that retribution for deaths worldwide as a result of American overseas policy over the past century or so would require, in effect, multiple 9/11s. Just a case of the chickens coming home to roost.

edit: your changed to you're - doh.

[krispos42]

16. Never heard of Ward Churchill, but he seems like a wise man

Well, at least we're not the British. God knows what they're owed!

This is the problem with empires... they inevitably become former empires. If you're lucky, you're not conquered afterwards.

[dipsydoodle]

18. It's this book

http://www.amazon.com/On-Justice-Roosting-Chickens-Consequences/dp/1902593790/sr=8-1/qid=1157022603/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-8250425-0399822?ie=UTF8

Well getting a copy.

I accept what you say about the British Empire. :)

[wuushew]

5. 2,973

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11

March 2003 plus 46.76 months according to my crude trend line.

[krispos42]

8. 2,973 Innocents killed, 19 hijackers killed, 24 missing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11%2C_2001_attacks

246 on the planes (including hijackers)
125 in the Pentagon
2602 in Manhattan, including 343 FDNY, 23 NYPD and 37 Port Authority police

I went to the 9/11 memorial in Sherwood Island State Park in Westport, CT, during Thanksgiving of 2004. There are dozens of stones engraved with the names of those from Connecticut killed in the attacks. Several of them were firefighters.

On many of the stones two pennies were placed on them. My mom did not understand the significance of the two pennies.

I told her that, in ancient Greek times, the relatives of the deceased would place coins over the corpse's eyes so the person's soul would be able pay Charon to cross the river Acheron into Hades.

I left 2 quartes on the marker of fallen fireman.

[bemildred]

7. RIP. nt

[0007]

11. Place another Marine on the pile!

Grass Bush

Pile the bodies high in Austerlitz and Waterloo Iraq
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; bush; I cover all.

And pile them high in Gettyburg Baghdad
And pile them high in Ypres and Vedum Mossoul and Al Fallaujah

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?

I am the grass bush.
Let me work.

Carl Sandburg


Support the war - Donate a Son a Daughter
The GOP working for a better America
God Bless America

[0007]

12. Pace another Marine on the pile!

Grass Bush

Pile the bodies high in Austerlitz and Waterloo Iraq
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; bush; I cover all.

And pile them high in Gettyburg Baghdad
And pile them high in Ypres and Vedum Mossoul and Al Fallaujah

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?

I am the grass bush.
Let me work.

Carl Sandburg


Support the war - Donate a Son a Daughter
The GOP working for a better America
God Bless America

[Eugene]

13. AP: U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq Hit 2,639

Associated Press
U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq Hit 2,639
By The Associated Press , 08.30.2006, 05:12 PM

As of Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006, at least 2,639 members of the U.S. military
have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according
to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians.
At least 2,095 died as a result of hostile action, according to the
military's numbers.

-snip-

The latest deaths reported by the military:

_ A soldier died Wednesday when his vehicle was struck by an explosive
southwest of Baghdad.

_ One Marine was killed Tuesday in Anbar province.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/08/30/ap2983853.html

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[Torgo Johnson]

15. FOAD

[krispos42]

17. Let us not forget the 30 thousand seroiusly injured

People missing limbs, organs, skin, brain functions. In other wars they would have died.