Jessica Lynch Rescuer Dies In Auto Crash

[Oilwellian]

A Marine who was home for the first time since fighting in Iraq died Sunday morning when the vehicle he was driving veered off State 11 and crashed into some trees, authorities said.
Josh Daniel Speer, 21, died instantly about 8 a.m. while en route to his fiancee's house, said Kent Dill, a Greenville County deputy coroner.

Speer was a member of a unit that helped rescue Jessica Lynch, the Army private captured by Iraqis near Nasiriyah, said Capt. Shawn Turner, a corps spokesman. Details of the unit's role weren't available, he said.

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/news/2003/07/07/200307079664.htm

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. So why don't we hear about the 9 marines

who got killed in action, possibly from friendly fire, trying to rescue her the 1st time?

[Maine Mary]

2. Coincidence?

Another very convienant one if so. :tinfoilhat:

[Ripley]

3. That's really sad his pastor encouraged him

to join the Marines after 9/11 in order to "counteract" it. Why do these religious people encourage killing and killing the wrong perpetrators of 9/11?

Accidents do happen, but it makes you wonder if he had talked to anyone about a "different" version of the rescue.

Or else those Marines sure don't know how to drive...they seem to be dying in traffic accidents in Iraq and now home, by the hundreds.


:tinfoilhat:

[Solomon]

4. There's Enough Shit In the Jessica Lynch

escapade to fill several books now. It just goes on and on and on. Don't you wish you had a peephole on that day, and could see what really happened?