When Mom Goes to War...And Dies (or is horribly injured)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_5858.shtml

Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa was not only the first female American soldier killed in combat in Iraq, she was also the first U.S. military mother to die in the war.
In all, six mothers in uniform have died in Iraq between the start of the war in March 2003 and the end of November, leaving behind a total of 10 children. Overall, 27 women troops have died in the war.

Among the mothers were:

Piestewa, 23, who died in the March 23, 2003, ambush in which Pfc. Jessica Lynch was captured in Nasiriyah. She had two children, Brandon, 4, and Carla, 3. Both now are being raised by their grandparents in El Paso, Texas.

Another single Army mother, Spc. Jessica Cawvey, joined the Illinois National Guard to build a better life for her daughter, Sierra, 6. In Iraq since February, Cawvey, died Oct. 6 when a roadside bomb exploded as her convoy passed near Fallujah.

And another mother of 5 severely injured.

http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/3997566/detail.html

Long Recovery Ahead For Soldier Wounded In Mortar Attack

The five children of an Oklahoma City soldier wounded in a mortar attack in Iraq were wondering Tuesday when their mother would return

Spc. Rosetta Floyd, a medic in the U.S. Army, was resting on the roof of her barracks near Sadr City in August when a mortar round exploded several feet away from her. Since then, she has spent most of her time recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Army officials say Floyd suffered some of the worst injuries among those who were hurt by shrapnel from the mortar attack, which killed several soldiers and wounded many others. Her family members said they were told that Floyd's recovery could take months or even years.

Meanwhile, Floyd's sister, Cecelia Rainge, is taking care of the soldier's five children, who range in age from 3 to 13 years old.

Rainge said her sister exhibited bravery after the attack by trying to save a friend and fellow soldier -- despite her own grave injuries. She said Floyd's friend did not survive.

[Niccolo_Macchiavelli]

1. to be honest ... my pity is limited

single parents and parents of large families are about the least that belong in the armies. as you have choosen a more civil obligation.

somehow a pity they procreated before were eliminated frome the gene pool.

The children though have my pity.

[Bridget Burke]

2. Are you a Dominionist?

Just asking. I've been studying the Dominionist movement recently & they revere Machiavelli. Lying, division--all in the gamebook.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/111704Mazza/111704mazza.html

Sorry about your pity deficiency. Despite what you've been told, size does matter.

[Niccolo_Macchiavelli]

3. no i'm not dominionist (caution, angry venting)

i'm just had my weak five minutes when i (re)choose nickname (i know alcohol is no excuse but i'm stuck with it)

I just think its a poor profession choice to choose a dangerous profession when you got a family at home especially if one is a single parent or leaves many children to the other half.

Soldiers are there to kill, war is about to kill and one gets killed. occasional hazard of soldiers and unless press gangs are introduced in NSUSA it's was their frigging choice.

Unlike the more or less combattive Iraqi populace which had little choice as the war happened to be on their wells brought to them fascist collaborators actively and passively.

No, i'd say i'm an anti-dominionist. For what i summarize:

the citizen of "the beacon of freedom" managed to get their their elections stolen in 2000, in 2002 and in 2004. Invaded a weakened country illegally (getting their ass beaten), drawing the resentment of the globe while, wrecking your consumidoltrious wastonomic, even in that the sheeps, the wolves and the pigs fail to coordinate and execute some effective protest. i conclude that the inhabitants of the home of the brave are either or interchanged lazy, nuts, stupid &/or downright evil.

for what i care, US citizenry can just sink to ground as atlantis, get vapored, whatever... and i sure won't shed a tear too much on the fall of this enabling society.

Size does matter in that you are right especially in the HIGHER levels of the building.

Venting is sometimes healty, feel released....ahhhhhhhhhhh

Have an extra bed and a sleeping bag at the ready for eventual fugees though.


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[Bridget Burke]

6. That sort of planning can be difficult.

My father was single when he went to war. Against Nazi Germany--the one your country sat out. Nice bank balances left by all those dead Jews, though!

He started his family as a civilian but was called back to active duty when I was six weeks old. He was killed in a training accident, leaving three children. Sorry my genetic material is so inferior.

[Niccolo_Macchiavelli]

7. conscription vs proff army

if i recall right i was told then there was no all-volunteer army. Fighting Nazi Germany was just a little different cause, well at least in my book. but let's focus on what we agree. Despite the tone i think we wish for the same: take the soldiers/marines/sailors home to their families and let them do something useful to their communities.

yup the balances were nice... allthough there was no law like in US that made them to federal property after 20(25?) years of unclaimedness..so our crooked banks had to give it back. keeping it would surly have hurt the economic karma. ;-)

yeah you are truly degenerated watch it - you could sink tothe level of my angry ranting self.

[RamboLiberal]

4. With our economy for some of these people the military

is the best job they can find to support their family.

I think the gene pool remark was uncalled for.

Unfortunately some looked at the military as a job and never expected they'd be called to go in to a war.

[Liberty Belle]

5. True. Well said.

I think that it should be prohibited to send both a husband and wife into a combat zone, if they have minor children at home.

After World War II, after several brothers died on the same hsip, a new law or regulation was adopted prohibiting siblings from serving in combat together, to spare parents the grief of losing more than one child in battle.

Is it not even more important to protect young children from becoming orphans?