"MIracle Marine" Dies.... RIP

No news accounts of his death indicate a cause. I'm not at all knowledgeable about medical stuff, but if he'd survived this long, I would think he'd have had a very good chance of living. Apparently not.

....he had some kind of seizure following another skin graft surgery.

I damned near cried when I found out he was only 22.

Damn this motherfucking war.

Only 20 when it happened, then. Maybe 19.

There's just so much any human body can take, even when you're young.

Poor, poor kid.

For three years "He endured more than 40 surgeries, spent 17 months in a hospital and had to learn to walk again", and then died at age 22. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and their bastard friends did this to him. They are solely, and completely, responsible.

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Peace to his loved ones and all those who have lost children, moms and dads to this war that did not have to be...our leaders can stop it today, but won't.

Shame on the neocons and those who follow them. Shame on the apathetic and those that turn their faces away and go back to their comfy couches and TVs.

peace.

But he won't of course.

This man, who's apparently become the "Emblem of Resolve" probably won't even rate a mention from the Chimp-in-Chief.

Ironic.

Imagine what he could have accomplished if his life had not been cut short by this senseless war.

All these young lives cut short, they were children just a few years ago. They were just starting their lives as adults. There are no words to describe such losses. I don't know how their families cope with the magnitude of those losses. It is overwhelming.


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His dream.
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