Making it personal: another young Marine dies in Iraq

[theHandpuppet]

Just another day... just another story of a promising young life cut short... another family in grief.

From today's Cincinnati Enquirer: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060408/NEWS01/604080370

Marine death 'hard to imagine'
Milford grad had just visited school in Dec.
BY HOWARD WILKINSON | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Lance Cpl. Bryan Taylor came back to Milford High School in December in his Marine dress uniform to say goodbye to his favorite teachers before reporting for duty that would take him to Iraq.

Little did those teachers know it would be the last time they would see the 20-year-old they had watched grow from a happy-go-lucky freshman into a grown man with a purpose.

Friday, word came that the Miami Township man, who had been in Iraq for only a month, was dead - apparently the victim of gunfire while he fueled his Humvee near Baghdad.

"I told him back in December to be careful, to come home safe; and he said, 'Aw, don't worry about me,' " said LaRue Turner, the technology teacher who hit it off with Taylor. "It is hard to imagine him gone."

(snipping)

The family, through a friend, said they were not ready to comment on their son's death, choosing instead to remain inside their home with friends.

Taylor is the 21st Marine or soldier from Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky to be killed in Iraq. As of Friday, 2,344 members of the U.S. military had been killed in the war that began three years ago....

Accompanying the article is a pic of this baby-faced young man and a list of the 21 local marines and soldiers killed in Iraq. Let it be a reminder of why we must fight this lying, murderous regime and BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!

[KharmaTrain]

1. A Quiet Pain...Guess It's Not Hurting Enough

The biggest shame of this illegal and immoral invasion is those who were caught in the lies and fears of this regime...many of them young men and women who were tricked into believing they were going to serve in a noble cause to make this country better and safer. Instead it's been a dead end of so many young lives.

Meanwhile our corporate media is brow-beaten by this regime and its right wing toadies that there's not enough "good news". How I wish Laura Ingraham would strut her pompus ass to that young man's funeral...look at the faces of the family and friends who all have the same unanwered question...the same one Cindy Sheehan has...why???

[MADem]

2. Shot while he fueled his 8 mile a gallon fucking HUMVEE....

Words fail.

[dogday]

3. It is personal for me

My Son serves in Iraq....

[knitter4democracy]

5. Thank him for me.

He is doing a good thing, serving his country with honor (even though his CIC has none).

Let me know if he would like a helmet liner. I'm making them as fast as I can for anyone I know who's serving over there.

[GCP]

6. Tell him our thoughts and prayers are with him

And all his fellow troops. May he come home safe and sound :hug:

[Binka]

8. He'll Be Home Soon Honey

:hug: Hang On!

[theHandpuppet]

4. Another thing I noted from the casualty list

Look how the number of casualties jumped from 4 in 2003 to 13 in 2005.

It's friggin' time to GET OUT!!

[0007]

7. Add one more to the pile

Grass Bush

Pile the bodies high in Austerlitz and Waterloo Iraq
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; bush; I cover all.

And pile them high in Gettyburg Baghdad
And pile them high in Ypres and Vedum Mossoul and Al Fallaujah

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?

I am the grass bush.
Let me work.

Carl Sandburg


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