Three natn'l guardsmen from state killed.....

[MnFats]

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/10963187.htm


one is a St. Louis Park cop, another is a first-year teacher in a small town.....that is 16 from our state dead in this goddamn war.




3 Minnesota Guardsmen killed in Iraq


The Associated Press


Three Minnesota National Guardsmen were killed in Iraq, family members and civilian sources confirmed today.
They were identified as Staff Sgt. David Day, of Morris; 1st Lt. Jason Timmerman of Tracy, both of the 151st Field Artillery based in Montevideo, and Jesse Lhotka of Appleton, whose rank and unit weren't immediately known.
Word of Day's death came from his grandmother, LaVonne Day. Timmerman's death was reported by Carmen Brunsvold, who leads a Marshall-based Guard support group. Lhotka's death was confirmed by his grandmother, Arvilla Lhotka of Waconia.
None of the deaths were immediately confirmed by state Guard officials or the federal Department of Defense.
LaVonne Day said the family was told that Day was checking on an overturned Humvee when a roadside bomb went off, killing him. The military reported three soldiers were killed Monday in Baghdad by a roadside bomb as they were evacuating a fellow soldier, though it couldn't immediately be confirmed whether those three were the Minnesota soldiers.

[Worst Username Ever]

1. Their families are in my thoughts.

[cornermouse]

2. A grandmother should never have to attend a grandchild's

funeral. Its just not right.

[greblc]

3. Speechless....