Born on the 4th of July - Marine on 2nd Tour is 1,000th Killed Afghanistan

[RamboLiberal]

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) - The 1,000th American serviceman killed in Afghanistan was born on the Fourth of July. He died several days before Americans honor fallen troops on Memorial Day.

Marine Cpl. Jacob C. Leicht was killed Thursday when he stepped on a land mine in Helmand province that ripped off his right arm. It was the 24-year-old Texan's second deployment overseas.

Leicht had begged to return to the battlefield after a bomb took out his Humvee in Iraq. He spent two painful years recovering from face and leg injuries, all the while pining for combat in letters from his hospital bed.

He finally got back to the front lines, but was killed less than a month into the tour of duty he desperately wanted.

"He said he always wanted to die for his country and be remembered," said Jesse Leicht, his younger brother. "He didn't want to die having a heart attack or just being an old man. He wanted to die for something."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100530/D9G1297O1.html

I'm sorry this young man got his wish. Rest in Peace.

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1. How did Patton put it?

"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."