Widow, mother-to-be says goodbye to fallen soldier

[DoYouEverWonder]

April 7, 2006




NEW PORT RICHEY - The widow, nearly seven months pregnant, laid a red rose at the grave marker.

The ceremony was over.

But after she was led away to a waiting car, Rebecca Rowe returned.

Silently, she carried a small bunch of roses to her husband's coffin. She stood there for several minutes to say goodbye.

Sgt. Michael Rowe will never meet their daughter, Nevaeh Elizabeth, who is due in July.

Rowe, 23, was killed March 28 when an explosive device detonated near his Humvee as he led an Army convoy in Rutbah, Iraq.

He would have turned 24 the next day.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/04/07/Pasco/Widow__mother_to_be_s.shtml

Front page - St. Pete Times

These stories should be front page of every paper, everyday.

[MadMaddie]

1. 24 years old...gone.. this angers me to no end...

This soldier will never meet his daughter....and she will never know daddy..

No * the lives of our young men and women is not worth your f**&%$ war...they should be home raising their babies and loving their spouses....

He was but a child himself....

[niyad]

2. the local rag buries the names somewhere in the middle of the front

section (unless one of the people from carson is killed)--the denver paper devotes a section (second A) each week--but you are right, they ought to be front page every day in every paper.

I lived in NPR for two years, a very nice little town.

[DesertRat]

3. I have a son the same age

My heart aches for this poor young widow and her unborn baby as well as the rest of his family :cry:

[DesertRat]

4. Sad kick

[bluedog]

5. seen this today in St pete...

it was right on front page..........how sad........this is what bushs lies did to many in this country

[IndianaGreen]

6. Let's do what Kerry said and bring all the troops home NLT year's end

if we were to listen to the DLC's Al From and the MSM, we will continue to see this sad scene repeated over and over again until at least January 20, 2009.

[karlrschneider]

7. There are no words to describe how much I despise the bastards

who created this insane madness. RIP Sgt. Rowe.
...

[leftchick]

8. but wait, bush is the pro-life prez!

:argh: :grr: :( :cry:

There are no words for the horror, sadness and damage bush has caused.