Idaho loses it's 1st Female Soldier In Iraq - 19 years old

[Erika]

Specialist Carrie French, 19, Caldwell Idaho, hit by roadside bomb

See www.Idahostatesman.com

She looks like a pretty and petite young girl. Her family says she's warm-hearted and fun-loving...or was

Bush's war.

[Botany]

1. Blessings & prayers on her spirit, family, and friends.

Specialist Carrie French, 19 :patriot:

far braver then the bastards who sent her.

Come on DU we need some real love here!

[HockeyMom]

2. My Sympathy

I have a daughter only 2 years older. Poor young woman. She was just starting to live her life to have it end so tragically.

May she rest in peace.

[acmejack]

3. She died for us

and our sins (not stopping this dirty war). I'm sorry Carrie and I grieve with your family and friends. I am heartbroken every time I see a young person's life snuffed before they even have the opportunity to explore it's marvels.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

48. NO, she didn't die for US---sorry, she died for an ALCOHOLIC AWOL SOB

The Bastard!

They all died for him, his buddies, and the "corporate" interest in the region.

There is absolutely no reason for any U.S. troops to remain in Iraq.

They are NOT fighting for freedom.
They are NOT protecting us from harm.
They ARE sitting targets waiting to be taken out one at a time.

Troops home NOW!
Each and EVERY one of them!

[pie]

56. She died for absolutely nothing. Why aren't people angry yet!?

[Supersedeas]

53. warm regard for the folks

[crispini]

4. Great Scott.

I can't even say RIP... a nineteen year old girl. This is wrong. :mad:

[Inland]

5. Time to change a quote.

“No one is so foolish as to prefer war to peace, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.”

[Sydnie]

7. Oh my gosh! Who said that?

That is so appropriate for blivet**'s war.

RIP Sweet Princess, You will not be forgotten.

My thoughts are with the family. :cry:

[Inland]

9. Attributed

to Croesus of Lydia by Herodotus.

[Up2Late]

6. That so sad, I'm not sure why, but Female deaths hurt more...

...but it's even worst when they have (had) children back home.

<http://vh10503.moc.gbahn.net/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=G0&Date=20050606&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=50606009&Ref=AR&maxW=280&noborder=1&Q=70>
Here's a Photo :patriot:

[ewagner]

8. That picture

makes me tear up badly.....

right now three of my sons friends are in Iraq.....three kids who used to come over to play video games, play in the pool in the back yard....we watched them play "biddy basketball" in 5th grade....we watched them play Jr High Football...and dress like grownup (or so they thought) for the prom....

war.......

bullshit on bush.....damn him.

[annabanana]

10. How unutterable sad..

I'm so sorry Carrie. I'm so sorry Mr. & Mrs. French. These beautiful children heed their country's call. It is our job to choose the caller. We have to do our job better.

[brainshrub]

11. Damn.

I don't know why, but hearing about Carrie French is having an effect on me that none of the other names did.

[vinessa4freedom]

12. I am so sorry...

The French family and the families of all those lost have my love and condolences. :grouphug:

[ET Awful]

13. My sympathies to the family.

I wish the General hadn't decided to spout the faux patriotic "freedom isn't free" and "preserving the freedome we all cherish" crap. It would have been much nicer to focus on HER rather than some patriotic spiel.

To her family, I am so sorry that Carrie was taken from you at such a young age, it's truly a tragedy :cry:

[JRob]

14. Truly tragic...

[wakeme2008]

15. I do not know how the families handle losing a son or daughter

and then reading more and more about the lies that Bush pushed to take us to war...

I just do not know......

[Botany]

16. kick

please keep this kicked ....... that is not asking too much ......

"Oh Carrie .....
if I know the words I would say them.
if I knew an act that would help I would do it.
if I just knew what to do?"

[ewagner]

19. Well said

well said indeed....

let this serve as a :kick:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

17. One year older than my daughter.

And just as fresh of face. I wonder what other similarities they shared?

Whatever potential that young life held is now gone forever. Wasted fighting a war based on deceit.

[MichiganVote]

18. I'm both humbled and ashamed that as an American

a nineteen year old child believes she must die for me. I don't want these children to die for me. It isn't right, it just isn't right. And no government, no president and no democrat or republican will convince me differently.

We don't bow our heads low enough. As a country we are shameful.

[Erika]

27. No, it isn't right she died - it just isn't right

It also sickens me. This war is insane.

I also hurt for her, her parents, and our country. My nephew will be deployed for his 2nd tour in August. He's the same age.

God forgive us.

[MichiganVote]

28. Keep this handy. www.G.I.RightsHotline

[MichiganVote]

20. Delete, duplicate post

[Solly Mack]

21. I hate Bush.

[saigon68]

22. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

As his Mommy prepared to "TUCK HIM INTO BED" after palayng War Criminal all day.

[Maat]

23. May she transition peacefully and be happy for eternity.

Her family is in our prayers.

Out of Iraq now!

[DemoTex]

24. Wilfred Owen : "Dulce et decorum est.."

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.

GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Dulce et decorum est, Pro patria mori!

It is sweet and good to die for ones' country!

Bullshit. Been there (RVN), almost tried that!

[Inland]

34. Time to go to the library for a book of Owen

Heard of him, should read him.

[Orsino]

25. A National Guard soldier...

...dies defending Idaho's very, very, very easternmost border from invaders.

[pie]

55. That is how her obituary should have read

That and perhaps: "Another pointless death.
Another unfortunate sucker takes one for Bush.
Another good person has died for nothing."

[deadparrot]

26. RIP.

...

A year older than me. :puke:

[karlrschneider]

29. I don't know whether I am angrier or sadder at this. Both, I suppose.

National guardsmen are supposed to be doing things other than participating in foreign invasions and occupations. RIP Carrie.
:cry:

[MelissaB]

30. Me, either, but I'm nominating this thread

because I almost missed this news. :cry:

[unhappycamper]

31. Condolences and prayers to your family.

Carrie should have been home with her family.

[katinmn]

32. Another tragic, unnecessary death

And there's no end in sight. GWB and his daddy and Cheney aren't rich and powerful enough yet.

The nighmares her parents have had for months is real. How devastating.

I hate the chicken hawks that use our people like toy soldiers.

[gmoney]

33. National Guard, not "regular military"

Wonder if she ever even guessed she'd wind up in Iraq...

[applegrove]

35. Sorry for someone so young. How sad. n/t

[Botany]

36. kick

for Carrie

[Erika]

39. She was a very pretty 19 year old

Her hometown is about 30 miles from where I live. I will attend the services. Even if I retch at some conservative GOP saying she died for a good cause.

I will be there.

Thanks for keeping this kicked. We need to realize these kids, boys and girls, are dying without cause. We need to demand a stop to this stupidity. We need to set aside some party threads momentarily to show them honor. We don't need to act as the GOP and pretend this war doesn't exist or our kids aren't dying.

We need to honor our dead. Especially our dead kids. Just because the GOP ignores them doesn't mean we should forget them.

[SaveAmerica]

37. No Words....

I've given up trying to keep the tears dry.

[Daphne08]

38. She looks like a former student of mine. So young.

:cry:

[progressivebydesign]

40. Sympathies to her family and friends.

She was apparently doing what she believed in.. that means something, doesn't it?

[Hand]

41. "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED," shrieked the prep-school pussy...

"We're makin' good progerss in mah vanity war...", failing to realize how hated he would become. :grr: :cry:

[Merope215]

42. Wow

She's the same age as I am. And she actually looks like me. I hope she at least was able to die right away, before the terror and loneliness.

It's so fucked-up that I'm saying that. How did we come to this, this country? Why are girls my age dying in illegal wars, far away from their parents? Why aren't they traveling, learning languages, stealing kisses in the moonlight, all the things that young people are supposed to do?

I don't really know what to say. I'll be thinking of them all tonight.

[Up2Late]

63. I don't know much about poetry, but what you wrote would make...

...a good anti-War Poem.

Thanks:hug:

[Aristus]

43. ARRRGH!

Her commander pulled that "Freedom Isn't Free" bullshit. That slogan is just a way for the war rah-rahs to feel good about themselves despite all the tragic unnecessary deaths. :grr::mad::grr::mad:

[Erika]

44. Goodnight and goodbye Carrie

God forgive us for allowing your life to be taken. Yes, we can beaten down by the GOP opposition when they keep on taking the lives of our young for their purposes.

I'll see you at your funeral.

[jbnow]

45. I dread seeing the fresh young faces

of soldiers, even when it is not their obituary. The same picture could be later, just like Carrie's.

Those fresh, eager playful eyes go off to see things we'd never want young eyes to see and are sometimes closed forever.

Those I knew who joined the National Guard over the years did have a desire to help in times of need (along with the perks), but they never envisioned war.

I wonder how many of those whose eyes won't open again are being assured they would not be sent to Iraq if they joined. I have a friend whose sons joined recently with that very promise. Is that their latest hook?

My heart goes out to her family, to all of the families here and there who are grieving losses from this war.

[Erika]

46. No, at 19 she won't open her eyes again

Bush's will.

[NMMNG]

47. Another senseless death

Another life fed to *'s war machine.

My heart goes out to her family and other loved ones. They will miss her dearly.

With metta

[FreedomAngel82]

49. Damn

This is why we have to keep fighting for justice for this bullshit from Bush and Blair. They both deserved to be tried and jailed for life. For her and all the other's who lives were lost from this shit. RIP.

[lonestarnot]

50. Even in death they use her for propoganda...

"...This gallant and heroic young woman will always be remembered for her love of country and state and for her unwavering commitment to those principles that have preserved for all of us those freedoms we so cherish."

I'm sorry for this families loss for lies.

[Niccolo_Macchiavelli]

51. rest in peace little crusader

either crazy or dumb to go warring on foreign soil, i wished you had the opportunity to learn from your mistake. may your spirit be more at peace than it would have been alive with the memories of war and inhumanity.

[Botany]

52. kick

can we get to 200 for Carrie?

[CabalPowered]

54. My deepest condolences

from a fellow Idahoan. :(

[Az_lefty]

57. May God forgive us for sending these kids into harms way

:sad:

[Rob H.]

58. Damn

My family lived in Caldwell for almost nine years up to about a year and a half ago. She was so young... :(

[llmart]

59. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld couldn't care less........

about this poor girl. Tonight they'll be dining somewhere on some fancy china in their fancy clothes and making their stupid jokes and the coward-in-chief who couldn't serve his country when his time came will grin that shit-eating grin that makes him look like a simian and not even lose one minute's sleep over this dead girl.

She died for nothing. We were never in any danger from Iraq, though we sure are now. Don't tell me she died for a "cause" or "protecting our freedoms". I don't buy that bullshit.

She died for nothing.

[Coventina]

60. At least she will be the last to die, because

the insugency is on its "last legs".
RIGHT?!?!?!?!

Didn't I just hear that come out of Rummy's mouth???

[anarchy1999]

61. This one hurts just as much as all the rest. Let us please not loose

our focus. One death in this "war" was one death too many, on either side.

Just think about all the kids in Iraq for a moment, please.

This is a tragedy, and it is up to US to stop it.

The degree of pain has to just get harsher and then just maybe....

[ckramer]

62. 19 year old female soldier?

I thought Congress says that females were prohibited fighting at the front line...so what's going on here?

[Up2Late]

64. A SUV Ribbon I'd like to see