In Memoriam

[Grace]

21 November 2010

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation New Dawn.

Sgt. David J. Luff Jr., 29, of Hamilton, Ohio, died Nov. 21 in Tikrit, Iraq, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with small arms fire. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

[Grace]

20 November 2010

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

Spc. David S. Robinson, 25, of Fort Smith, Ark., died Nov. 20 in Qalat, Afghanistan, of injuries suffered in a non-combat related accident. He was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, Vilseck, Germany.

[Grace]

22 November 2010

The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died Nov. 22 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device. They were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.

Killed were:

Staff Sgt. Sean M. Flannery, 29, of Wyomissing, Pa.; and

Spc. William K. Middleton, 26, of Norfolk, Va.

[lizbud]

I don't know if this is the right place for this article. Grace, if you want
it removed, please let me know. I will delete it, no problem. But, I think it
is a topic that goes hand in hand with the terrible loss of America's finest
hopes for the future.

America, permanent war???

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/....html?hpt=Sbin

[Grace]

liz - no problem with that article. If I had seen it first, I probably would have posted it here.

Thanks, and let us pray permanent war is not in our future.

[Grace]

From TIME magazine -

On Saturday Nov. 27, the United States and its allies will reach a grim milestone: they will have been in Afghanistan a day longer than the Soviet Union had been when it completed its 1989 withdrawal. What's more, the U.S. announced during last weekend's NATO summit that it intends to spend at least four more years, and possibly longer, in the Hindu Kush. Even then, many Afghans — perhaps even the president installed by the U.S. invasion — appear to doubt that the Americans will succeed where their erstwhile Cold War nemesis failed.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...#ixzz16LbcX6uu

[Bonny]

A U.S. soldier that was interviewed over there said in the short term the war will not seem to gain much but in the long term of things it should? It is a thought to ponder.