Fort Bragg soldier killed in Iraq was due home Aug 9, family says

[LauraK]

RALEIGH, N.C. - It was only last week that Jacqueline Lambert got the news she'd been waiting months to hear: Her husband, Army Spc. James I. Lambert, was coming home from Iraq.

The couple - she is an Army sergeant - had been deployed to the Middle East in February. She returned from Kuwait in May and had been waiting for her husband to join her at home in Fayetteville, outside Fort Bragg.

"He was happy he was coming home," Jacqueline Lambert said Monday. "He was excited."

But on Thursday, James Lambert was killed in Baghdad when he was struck by a stray bullet that the Pentagon said may have been fired in some kind of celebration. ..

He was due to come home Saturday, Aug. 9, family members said. ..

"He had called because he wanted to come home," Bowling, 36, said from her home in Smithfield. "It was a little more than he could handle."

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[Nambe]

1. Thank you Laura. It is easy to forget how sad this war is.

It's hard not to feel as though these young boys are being murdered by the twisted freeks in the White House.

[Ilsa]

2. Last paragraph:

(snip)
"I figured that since Bush had basically declared the war over, they was just over there to be over there," said Shannon Lambert, 18, a cousin who lives in Kenbridge. "I didn't realize it was this serious until this happened."


Are people freaking stupid? Do they ever watch the news, even with family there? Bush's game of keeping Americans in the dark must be working.

[Tom Kitten]

5. Given that...

this makes my gut wretch. Another family destroyed. Yet Laci Peterson and Ben-Lo are so much more important ...This is like 1984 and Farenheit 451 fused together...

[Mel]

3. this is sad did you read the last lines?

"I figured that since Bush had basically declared the war over, they was just over there to be over there," said Shannon Lambert, 18, a cousin who lives in Kenbridge. "I didn't realize it was this serious until this happened."

YES, Damit, it IS serious! It's a WAR people! That means our men and women will continue too die in Iraq it doesn't matter what that dumbass chimp chief says it's not over!

[indictrichardperle]

4. that is what is such an Outrage

about Loserman trying to shout down any dem dissent , that its a "just war"

People like Wolfowitz and the neo-cons dont care about thiese young kids that continue to be killed. Its extremely unjust.

[dansolo]

6. Am I the only one who finds this suspicious?

Normally I'm not a tin-foil hat wearing type of person, but I find it oddly coindidental that this person was killed by a stray bullet a mere week before he was to come home. "He had called because he wanted to come home. It was a little more than he could handle." I really wonder what he knew...

[Pert_UK]

9. Not necessarily "what he knew"...but maybe another accident?

I don't know.....I can't imagine them killing their own people like you're suggesting, but I can imagine them covering up friendly fire or suicide with a story about "celebratory gunfire".

Whatever the case, condolences to the family - this is a tragedy.

P.

[Robin Hood]

7. Ummm, yeah right..

"he was struck by a stray bullet that the Pentagon said may have been fired in some kind of celebration."


One fucking lie after another. When will Americans wake up and smell the blood on their hands?

[Tom Kitten]

8. His Widow and Family ...

...will probably be denied combat benefits, too...

[Robin Hood]

10. Fucking assholes.

sacrafice and then abandonment. Is this how you motherfuclers support the troops?!!! By discarding them like household trash. I hope you Bush lovin SOB's rot in hell for the deaths that you have brought on so mindlessly.