Hundreds honor Montana veteran

[rsmith6621]

FORT HARRISON - It took several months of pushing, but finally, Chris Dana was ready.

The 23-year-old veteran of the Iraq war, who served with the 163rd Infantry Battalion, Montana National Guard, agreed to see a counselor for post-combat stress.

Members of his family, concerned for months about his change in behavior, believed they were starting to get through to him. He was to seek the help they all knew he so desperately needed.

Dana canceled that appointment. He began screening his calls. He stopped showing up at drill with the National Guard. He quit his job at Target, cleaned his car and the trailer he shared with a friend. And on March 4, he shut himself into his bedroom, put a blanket over his head and shot himself.


http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/03/10/news/state/35-killed.txt

[Redstone]

1. Just another casualty that won't be an "official" one. How many more are there?

Will we EVER know how many? And all for what? For nothing.

Redstone

[malaise]

2. Thanks W

You will pay one day.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Day after day, another Momma's crying

She's lost her precious child
To a war that has no end......

John Fogerty
Deja Vu (All Over Again)

[sarge43]

4. Maybe God can forgive George W. Bush

I never will.

Rest in peace, Mr Dana. You deserved better.

:patriot::cry: