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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 06:46 PM Original message |
Soldier, 59, is oldest U.S. service member to die in Afghanistan |
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stevedeshazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. Wow. |
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Serial Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
2. Maybe somebody's grandpa! Sad no matter what age! |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. Obscene.... |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 07:05 PM Response to Original message |
4. Damn! |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
5. RIP. My uncle re-upped in the reserves at 54 to get his pension |
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JohnnyLib2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
6. RIP. |
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angrycarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
7. My uncle is 51 and he just got back from Iraq. |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
8. That's 15 years more than average life expectancy for an Afghani male. n/t |
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kiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 08:31 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. And you posted that here why? |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. One question at a time, please. |
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kiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:45 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Sorry, didn't know your attention span was impaired. |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:52 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Because he died at 59 y/o in Afghanistan, |
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kiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 10:02 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. I've started 3 replies, and deleted all three. |
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propagandagirl (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 10:26 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. For who? His wife? Children? All the people who knew and loved him? |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:16 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Do you honeslty think |
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propagandagirl (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 03:52 AM Response to Reply #22 |
28. Actually, yes. There is a good chance that someone in his family could stumble upon it... |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:17 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. Yes, it does - |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
10. Why o' F'ing Why. What could possibly motivate a person to rejoin the military at that age. |
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donco (717 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 08:40 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Maybe he got |
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Ex Lurker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 09:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I know a guy who left an architectural practice and went back in |
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Downwinder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:02 PM Response to Reply #10 |
21. Perhaps he saved someone younger from having to go. |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:20 PM Response to Reply #10 |
24. I had a friend who joined the Marines |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 03:57 AM Response to Reply #24 |
29. Some individuals need to Kill |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 08:35 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. Did you notice that my friend was killed last week? |
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jimcarlton32 (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 04:58 PM Response to Reply #10 |
30. Because a sense of doing whats right has nothing to do with it? |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 05:46 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Get over yourself Sarge. Your not the only one who's been there. |
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jimcarlton32 (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-23-09 11:16 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. Nope. |
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AusDem (219 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 08:51 PM Response to Original message |
12. and the Bush "death panels" set up for young men and women and "a-rabs" |
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propagandagirl (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
18. He was my co-worker's husband.. |
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deep1 (252 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 10:49 PM Response to Original message |
20. Damn this makes me cry............. |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 01:43 AM Response to Original message |
25. He must have been an unusual man |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 01:46 AM Response to Original message |
26. RIP and Godspeed Sgt. Crisostomo |
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steven johnson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 02:54 AM Response to Original message |
27. An American hero, I thank all the patriotic Americans putting their lives on the line for us |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 05:26 PM Response to Original message |
31. RIP, he could he been awarded those medals in the first Gulf War also. |
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Dyedinthewoolliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-22-09 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
35. For pete's sake! |
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