Jason Chappell , aged 22

[SoCalDem]

http://www.pe.com/breakingnews/local/stories/PE_News_Local_jason28.10e73.html
Hemet grad dies in Iraq


SHOCK: Friends and teachers remembered Jason Chappell as quiet, yet intense.

02:00 AM PST on Wednesday, January 28, 2004


By KENNY KLEIN and SONJA BJELLAND / The Press-Enterprise

As a boy, Jason K. Chappell was quiet and loved to play Monopoly and Clue board games with family members. As a teenager, he was a member of Hemet High School's elite Academic Decathlon team that has dominated county competition for several years. As a U.S. Army specialist, he fought in Iraq. But on Saturday, the 22-year-old was one of three soldiers killed north of Baghdad when a powerful bomb exploded beneath his armored vehicle, wounding six other U.S. soldiers and several Iraqi civilians, military officials reported. The death toll in the Iraq war is now at least 519, military officials said.

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Chappell became the 13th Inland resident to be killed during the war with Iraq. That reality brought the war to the doors of Hemet High School. Chappell leaves behind his wife "Stephie," who he married about a year ago, Priest said. Stephie lives in Texas, she said.

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This past Christmas, Chappell didn't make it to the annual Academic Decathlon reunion. Herold wondered where he was because the two had been exchanging e-mails. Chappell originally did not want to spend his senior year putting in all the extra hours the team required. But when Herold asked, he couldn't refuse.

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It was Chappell's exuberance and intensity that made him great at the annual test of brains that begins Saturday. Herold said that's probably also what made him a great soldier.

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Herold remembers being at the state championship in a huge auditorium with a large crowd and Chappell raising his clenched fists into the air cheering on his team. Chappell returned in 2001 to root for his team again. "It's a shock to the staff that knew him," said Hemet High Principal Bill Black, adding that Chappell had a 3.8 grade-point average. "It's always a sad thing when you hear of someone so young dying. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family."

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[tom_paine]

1. Another young and promising life snuffed out for nothing

but the political ambitions of an Emperor and his Stooges.

Nothing but the right of the Imperials to loot their Subjects in Iraq AND Amerika AT THE SAME TIME.

Disgusting. Grotesque. Sad.

If there is a hell, I hope Emperor Dumbya* gets the cell right between Hitler and his Angel, Granpa Prescott Bush.

[UrbScotty]

2. How sad. God rest his soul.

And may we have a President who cares about individual people.

[lostnfound]

9. Bush/Cheney 04: Because the Individual Doesn't Matter

Bush/Cheney 04: We Bomb for Hallucinations

[GumboYaYa]

3. Wow, so sad...it's funny how some things really hit you hard when

there is a personal connection to someone. I was and Academic Decathlon student too. Every single person I met in that competition was a bright kid with a great future. So sad, again.....

[maveric]

4. I have a 22 year old son and his name is Jason.

Thats why this post just made me cry. There are parents, like me, out there now grieving for the loss of such a bright and promising star.
My heart and prayers go out to his family.

This is such a terrible waste.

bu$h, Rummy, Condi, Colin, Wolfiwitz, Perle, Cheney.....
will all burn in hell!

[maveric]

5. We need to keep this kicked.

:kick:

[tom_paine]

6. kick

:kick:

[manchu]

7. recently heard that clown Neal Boortz

say that he would go to a soldiers funeral and tell their family members that thier loved ones death was necessary and that if more soldiers die over there so be it. I was astounded. He had a caller whose neice and nephew might be headed over there and the caller supported the immediate pull out of our troops. Boortz said that was a horrible thing and that if the soldiers left it would be very bad for America ans the middle east. Funny how that "brave" Mr Boortz would never go to Iraq himself but would gladly sacrifice someone elses loved ones. I think the caller even said that Bush isnt risking anything personally(family members) in Iraq.

[rumguy]

8. rest in peace Jason Chappell

you look like you were a good guy