Vermont National Guard soldier killed in Iraq

[KarenInMA]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2005/08/24/vermont_national_guard_soldier_killed_in_iraq/


MONTPELIER, Vt. --Vermont National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Chris S. Chapin, 39, of Proctor, was killed in action Tuesday near Ramadi, Iraq, the National Guard announced.

Chapin was hit by small arms fire while performing a civil affairs mission, the Guard said. A U.S. Marine was wounded in the same incident, although it was not clear whether he was killed.

Chapin was a member of the 3rd Battalion, 172nd Mountain Infantry Regiment and in Iraq as part of Task Force Saber, a group of about 400 Vermont Guard members who arrived in Iraq last month.

Chapin is survived by a wife Paula Smith Chapin and a son. There was no answer Tuesday at Chapin's Proctor home.

I have family in this town. Go to Hell Bush.

[onenote]

1. Vermont -- one of two states Bush has not visited as Prez

But he doesn't mind Vermonters dying for his stupid war....

onenote

[Justitia]

3. what was the other one? -eom

[BrotherBuzz]

7. The State of San Francisco?

BUSH KEEPS S.F. AT BAY

President hasn't participated in 75-year tradition of visiting city -- and he has no plans to do so


Washington -- Presidential visits to San Francisco have been a tradition since Rutherford Hayes lunched at the Cliff House in 1880.

Presidents arrived by stagecoach and jet. One was shot at. Another died. In all, 20 presidents have visited the city, including every chief executive for the past 75 years.

Except George W. Bush.

Now in the fifth year of his presidency, Bush has yet to set a foot in the city that was home to his childhood baseball idol, Willie Mays, and shows no inclination to do so. The White House is planning a California visit by the end of the month, and San Francisco is not on the itinerary.

San Francisco, with roughly three-quarters of a million residents, is the only city among the nation's 25 largest that has not been host for a Bush presidential visit. If he avoids San Francisco for the rest of his term, he will be the first president not to visit since Calvin Coolidge, and only the second in more than a century.

The reason seems plain to even casual observers of American politics.

San Francisco is as politically, culturally and geographically distant from the president as anyplace in America. Eighty-four percent of the city's voters cast ballots against Bush in 2000, and 85 percent voted against him in 2004. The city has voted Democratic in 12 consecutive presidential elections.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/21/MNGA5EB32N1.DTL

[onenote]

8. pretty sure its Rhode Island

[Justitia]

2. Wasn't VT working to bring their Guard home? Suing the gov't?

I vaguely remember this effort, thought it might work.

Have you heard of this, or any news on it?

RIP Sgt. Chapin

[KarenInMA]

5. No, I put a call in to my Aunt to ask if she knows him

It's not that big of a town (well, it's in Vermont).

[democrank]

4. Heard about this on our local news.

So very sad. Just like clockwork, our Republican governor will probably make a statement today that Chapin died "protecting our freedom."

[KarenInMA]

6. You have a R governor??

Can't you get Dean back?