Another Army Res./First Responder Dies in Iraq.....

I am sure there are no statistics on how many police and firefighters in the reserves and NG have died. I have seen many of their photos on yahoo like this one. My cousin is in The Reserves and is a sheriff. He spent 14 months in Iraq and may have to go back again. This is making us safer how?

RIP Christopher... :(



The casket of Christopher W. Dill is brought into St. Edmund's Church in Tonawanda, New York on April 15, 2005. Dill, 32, a Buffalo firefighter with Engine 21 and a staff sergeant with the 98th Division of the United States Army Reserve, died in battle in Iraq on April 4 after he was shot during an ambush. REUTERS/Gary Wiepert




Colonel Paul Womack, (L), a chaplain with the 98th Division of the U.S. Army Reserves, comforts Dawn Dill, the widow of staff sergeant Christopher Dill who was killed in Iraq during funeral services in Tonawanda, New York on April 15, 2005. Dill, 32, was killed during an April 4 ambush while patrolling with Iraqi troops. REUTERS/Gary Wiepert

what a waste!

no matter the number. :(

Thank you for the post and pictures.

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>>Edward Craver, division chief with the Buffalo Fire Department and a friend of Dill’s father, teared up recalling Dill. Like the military, the emergency services are a close-knit community, he said.

“We are family,” Craver said. “We eat our meals together. We work together.”

A flag bearing a gold star that symbolizes a fallen comrade has been hung in front of Engine 21 memorializing Dill.

“What hits me in the gut is the idea that with this war going on and these young boys over there ... they’re putting their life on the line,” Craver said. “It seems like after a while it just becomes another number and you go on to the next piece of news.”

At Engine 21, Craver said, that won’t happen.<<
http://www.tonawanda-news.com/story.asp?id=2440

My cousin works in upstate NY so this hits particularly close to home for me.