Minnesota Marine, killed in Iraq, laid to rest....

[MnFats]

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God but I hate this fuggin' war.

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/12/08_randolpht_modeen/



"His devotion to his friends and to his family was like no other," said Hayne. "If he was needed in any situation, any situation at all, he was always the first to react, to be there, and try to help someone out, offer a shoulder to cry on, or any gesture he could to make someone smile. He was pretty good at making people smile."
Hayne said he and Modeen knew each other since they were 16. They graduated together from Highview Alternative School in 2000 and remained friends.
His devotion to his friends and to his family was like no other.
- Friend Chris Hayne

"Before Modeen joined the Marines in 2003, Hayne recalls them regularly getting together on Sundays to watch the Vikings play, often at one of their favorite bars, the Eagle's Nest in Robbinsdale.
It was there, back in July, that Hayne and Modeen hung out the day before Modeen returned to Iraq for his second tour of duty. Hayne says on that day, the two had drinks and he toasted his friend.
"I had made this toast to him and said, 'To when you come back. And he counteracted that and said, 'No, here's to if I come back,'" Haynes recalled. "It was at that point that he set down the drink and he reached into his pocket and pulled out a $20 bill. And he ripped it carefully and clean right down the middle. He signed half of that bill and gave me the other half, and I signed it and wrote him a little letter on it. I told him not to read it until he got to the sands of the desert.
"He gave me the other half and he said, 'When I get back, and I promise I'm gonna come back, we're going to tape this back together and we're having shots with it right here.' And that's the last time that I'd seen him," Haynes said.

[TexasLawyer]

1. so tragic

his family will be in my prayers.

Chimpy-- are you reading any of the obits?

[awoke_in_2003]

2. come on now,

wouldnt want to trouble his beautiful mind.