DoD Identifies Army Casualty (#2503)

DoD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Spc. Brent W. Koch, 22, of Morton, Minn., died on June 16, in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Koch was assigned to Company E, 2nd Battalion, 136th Infantry Combined Arms Battalion, Hutchinson, Minn.


http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2006/nr20060618-13289.html




Minnesota Army National Guard Spc. Brent W. Koch, 22, of Morton, Minn., shown in this undated photo made available by his family, died in Iraq on Friday, June 16, 2006, of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the family)

but he is such a good looking young man. What a shame to waste such people in this endless war.

and the fact he was in the fucking MN National Guard. He did not sign up to go to Iraq. :(

but I have seen as low as 18.

MURDERERS!!!

If they cared, and I don't think that they do.

Wanna see how much corner-turning we've done? Get a load of some of these cheery pictures from Stars and Stripes: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/galleries/137-1.html?SITE=DCSAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

every day. Those pictures were very upsetting,to say the least. Some of these were pictures taken during the time there was a shut-down of main roads around Baghdad. Shots of road blocks are interesting since we have misplaced 2 soldiers at a road block. Hard to see how the U.S. can be seen over there winning the hearts and minds. Our guys are right in the middle of all that hate and anger, they gotta wonder how much good it does for them to be there when they can see they are feared and hated.

Bush is going to stay the course, no cuttin' and runnin' for him. Does he even know what the course is?

What a terrible, terrible waste.

in congress and Shrub says "it's worth it". God, I truly hate the people who started and perpetuate this horrible war.

He was such a handsome young man.

Hell, he's "only a number." More die in car wrecks; the murder rate in this country is higher. Please let me continue to share my compassionate conservatism. Hell, I'm limbaugh and hannity and oreilly. We need to stay the course, fuck these kids and their whiny relatives. They volunteered.

Caveat: I'm not trying to be a freeper, just echoing "conservative" ignorance.

They gotta be kidding.

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


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