A brother lost to war | A life brought back ‘thread by thread’

[douglas9]

Islander David Warner died more than 40 years ago in Vietnam, one of more than 58,000 Americans who died during the grueling war in the jungles of Southeast Asia that consumed most of the 1960s. He was killed by gunfire on Feb. 17, 1968, on the porch of a house in the middle of Hue City during a days-long battle called the Tet Offensive, one of the seminal events of war in Vietnam.

Warner had been in Vietnam for just eight months when he was killed. He was one month shy of his 22nd birthday. He was survived by his parents and two sisters, Marci and Sue, then just 7 years old.

He had volunteered for duty in Vietnam.

He was just the type of young man who was sent off by the hundreds to the jungles of Southeast Asia, never to return.


http://www.mi-reporter.com/news/133558398.html

[earthside]

1. There is nothing glorious about war.

What a waste of a 22 year old man's life.
And still sad for the family.

Sad, indeed.

The message to young people: don't go.

[midnight]

2. K&R Such a strong family resemblance between brother and sister.