Soldier who survived 9/11 attack on Pentagon dies in Iraq

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/story/108803p-98330c.html

A U.S. Army counterintelligence analyst whose Pentagon office was struck by the hijacked jetliner on Sept. 11, 2001, has died of a pulmonary embolism while serving in Iraq, his father said Wednesday.
Military officials notified the family of Staff Sgt. Richard S. Eaton Jr. on Tuesday, his father — also Richard Eaton — said.

“Somebody just said today that he was born in the military, but he wasn’t,” the elder Eaton said. “It was just that he loved it.”

The family said they had few details about the soldier’s death.

The elder Eaton, who is a spokesman for the University of New Haven, said his son’s Pentagon office was being remodeled at the time of the terrorist strike. He said his son was in another part of the building when the commandeered jetliner struck it.

[benfranklin1776]

1. Jesus that sucks. Pulmonary embolism?

Will someone kindly step forward and demand an accounting from the SOB's in the Pentagon why so many young men there are dying of mysterious respiratory illnesses and circulatory accidents like this??

[Heddi]

2. Yah! Pulmonary embolism

doesn't really affect that many young people---or that many people in general.

These deaths are too convenient, you know. "Oh..respiratory illness! Must be a virus! Case Closed! Nothing to see here..."

sickening.

[benfranklin1776]

3. Yep that was my reaction as well.

Given his line of work.
But it is high time for answers generally about these incidents, not more of the Rumsfeld two-step.
I want to know exactly whether these stroke incidents are related to the stories we have been hearing
about the absolutely unconscionable lack of adequate drinking water and heat stress from tenting in the 130 degree heat thanks to the shitty job Bush and Cheney's buds at Halliburton have done with their sweetheart cost plus military contracts.

[joeybee12]

4. Makes you wanna cry

I am so totally against our terrorist invasion in Iraq, but it still gets to me to hear of these deaths. These deaths are young kids who haven't realized yet that their government can lie to them and use them--they just want to serve their country. Well, they're learning the hard way, and I hope Dumbo and his evil co-horts burn in hell for the pain and agony they have caused.

[Kolesar]

5. American rats have been killing people with the "Hanta Virus"

It causes a respiratory disease. There have been outbreaks in NM and other western states. Perhaps it is a similar virus in the desert there.

[Virginian]

7. Heddi was being sarcastic - You know that, right?

(You could be onto something with the Hunta virus or a similar strain of virus.)

Pulmonary embolism is NOT caused by a virus; It is usually caused by a DVT (a blood clot in the leg)that travels to the lungs.
This wasn't another case of "the flu" but because it involved the lungs, it might be lumped in with the virus cases.

I also think the lack of water and creature comforts are contributors.
You can only stress a body so much.

How old was that dedicated young man?

[TacticalPeek]

9. Truly coincidence, but PE claimed NBC embed David Bloom. n/t

[DUreader]

6. Rapid Onset Pulmonary Embolism Due to INcoming ("ROPED IN" Syndrome)

Very common in Iraq, Afghanistan, Philipines, Yemen, Colombia etc.

[Virginian]

8. More please. What is "Roped in" syndrom?

n/t

[Sagan]

10. those bullet-induced pulmonary embolisms are a bitch...

Good thing he wasn't a "hostile action" casualty. Now we can forget about him.

He doesn't count.

[Guaranteed]

11. Pulmonary embolisms...

...are blood clots, often starting in the legs, that break loose and flow into the heart or lungs. They can also go into the brain sometimes. They're caused by dehydration and lack of movement. It's also called "economy class" syndrome because people often get it after taking long flights on airlines, when they can't move around much.
I've actually been scared a couple of times when my legs felt kind of numb after flights.
The best way to make sure this doesn't happen is to drink plenty of water, don't drink alcohol, and, above all, get up and stretch your legs every hour or so. Especially if they start feeling like they're going numb. It also helps to take a blood thinner like aspirin before a flight.

[CBHagman]

12. I just hate this

There's new twist of the knife every day, as when that serviceman came home to his family and died of a heart attack.

And tucked inside the Metro section of the Washington Post are the pictures of family members grieving by the gravesides of their fallen family members.

I just hate this.

[osaMABUSh]

13. Any death = combat death; GIs die in Iraq because of the War

The official combat death toll, of course, only counts those killed in action by a bomb or bullet.

Here's the real litmus test for determining if it is an offical War (combat) death: would the soldier have died if was not in Iraq?

99 times out of 100 the answer is NO. Be it bullet, bomb, humvee crash, suicide, helicopter crash, friendly fire, falling off a tall building, pneumonia, heat stroke, mysterious illness, etc. - THE SOLDIER WOULD NOT HAVE DIED IF WAS ANYWHERE BUT IRAQ.