MARINE KILLED IN VEHICLE ACCIDENT NEAR THE TOWN OF HIT(#1685)

[leftchick]

RIP... :(

June 9, 2005
Release Number: 05-06-11C


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


MARINE KILLED IN VEHICLE ACCIDENT NEAR THE TOWN OF HIT

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – A Marine assigned to 2nd Force Service Support Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), was killed in a vehicle accident near the town of Hit, June 8.

The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT THE MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-WEST PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE AT [e-mail].


http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20050611.txt

[Supersedeas]

1. democracy at gunpt is hard werk for chickenhawks...deadly work for our

bravest and brightest....regards and sympathy to the families of the dead.

[lebkuchen]

2. Seems like it was 3 killed in June just a handful of days ago

We'll hit 1700 killed by next week. It's a sad commentary that America's new milestone, rather than US dead in Iraq, isn't X number of GM cars rolling off the assembly line.

[leftchick]

8. Do you know what scares me?

I will be on vacation starting Saturday for 8 days. Eight days without the internet so I will have no idea how the daily tally of US deaths is rising. The first time I log on when I get back will be a very sobering experience I am sure. So far in June it has been 17 dead in 9 days. :(

[catmandu57]

3. 15 since monday

Monday morning I check icasualties first thing, the count was 1670,today it's 1685.

[LongTomH]

4. The number slowly creeps toward 2,000

Whether you're religious, in an institutional sense or not, say prayer for this kid's family!

[sabra]

5. CAMP FALLUJAH?

so sad...

[MisterP]

6. that's like from the death of Herod to the birth of Bach and the Monmouth

Rebellion, if 1 dead = 1 year

[seemslikeadream]

7. HOW MANY MORE GEORGIE, HOW MANY MORE?

http://www.thememoryhole.org/
SOME MOTHER’S SON

Some mother’s son lies in a field
Someone has killed some mother’s son today
Head blown up by some soldier’s gun
While all the mothers stand and wait
Some mother’s son ain’t coming home today
Some mothers son ain’t got no grave

Two soldiers fighting in a trench
One soldier glances up to see the sun
And dreams of games he played when he was young
And then his friend calls out his name
It stops his dream and as he turns his head
A second later he is dead

Some mother’s son lies in a field
Back home they put his picture in a frame
But all dead soldiers look the same
While all the parents stand and wait
To meet their children coming home from school
Some mother’s son is lying dead

Somewhere someone is crying
Someone is trying to be so brave
But still the world keeps turning
Though all the children have gone away

Some mother’s son lies in a field
But in his mother’s eyes he looks the same
As on the day he went away

They put his picture on the wall
They put flowers in the picture frame
Some mothers memory remains

Kinks