Anyone here know someone who was a casualty of the Iraq war?

[bluestateguy]

Does anybody here at DU know someone, or know the family member of someone who was injured or killed in the war in Iraq?

[bluestateguy]

1. kick

Let's try this again.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Yeah, son of someone I used to know quite well.

Although, I've drifted apart from her over the last few years. I remember her son hanging out with our softball team.

[no_arbusto]

3. My sister knows two.

Her roommate's first cousin, and her boyfriend's best friend from basic training.

[Columbia]

4. Yes I do

Fellow Marines and personal friends

[Aidoneus]

5. Yes

in the period before the invasion I came to be friends through the internet with a couple who lived in Najaf, later found out both were killed by US bombs in that "Shock & Awe" blitzkreig on Baghdad.

[nostamj]

7. damn

that is so stark. so raw.

will we ever know what was done 'in our name' in that horror?

or, this ongoing horror?

[seventhson]

6. Sister in law knew a teenage boy, recent high school grad her age

from our community.

Wife's cousin ( a state policeman) was injured at Pentagon on 9-11 seriously and we (my family) all believe in Mihop.