Brother of Marine Killed in Iraq Takes Own Life. The occupation that keeps on taking.

[uppityperson]

This is a small town on the west coast of WA, used to be a logging town but logging has shut down a ways back. Now it is still conservative, but this is just sad. RIP Jason. RIP Jacob. End the occupation of Iraq.

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/265085

ORKS -- Jacob Hanson's big brother, Marine Lance Cpl. Jason Hanson, 21, and three other Marines, were killed July 29 in Iraq. A suicide bomber drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a building near a checkpoint to their base.

Jacob and Jason's parents, Carol and Stephen Hanson, didn't want Jacob to hear about his brother's death through the small-town grapevine. His mother went to tell him. She pulled Jacob outside from his cooking job at the In Place in Forks and, behind the restaurant, quietly told him. Jacob broke down crying -- then punched a trash bin so hard that he broke his hand.

Later, Jacob took to wearing his brother's dog tags. ``He didn't know what to do. He couldn't fix it,'' Carol said Thursday. ``I think he got lost in the sadness.''

Last Sunday, Jacob took his own life.

He was 19 and had just started a job with a logging company, his mother said....(more@link)

[babylonsister]

1. It doesn't get much sadder than that.

:cry:

[Hav]

2. .

Wow, what a tragedy. Losing his brother made everything else seem worthless, it made him lose his will to live.

[brook]

3. That is just heart breaking.

Can you imagine what it's like for those parents to wake up every morning? God grant them the strength and serenity to cope with such a loss as this - of their two precious children. :cry:

[Bluerthanblue]

4. War- the curse that keeps on taking-

the words "there has never been a good war, or a bad peace"- echo yet again.

So sad- so poignant- so frustratingly un-redeemable.