She was only 21, an Army Sgt., beautiful and blown to bits

[jannyk]

in Iraq on March 3rd.



Army Sgt. Ashly L. Moyer

21, of Emmaus, Pa.; assigned to the 630th Military Police Company, Bamberg, Germany; died March 3 in Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near her vehicle.

http://www.militarycity.com/valor/2607208.html

Her funeral was today at 5pm Emmaus, PA (happening now) . Her poor parents :cry:

More about Ashly here:
http://iraqnam.blogspot.com/2007/03/ashly-l-moyer-dies-of-injuries-from-ied.html

[EFerrari]

1. K&R

[Buzz Clik]

2. Thank you for letting us see that this tragedy is not measured in mere numbers.

[Redstone]

3. And all for NOTHING.

More's the shame, that we'll murder our own children, for nothing.

Redstone

[WinkyDink]

9. Mammon and Moloch. Mammon and Moloch.

[Cha]

4. Beautiful is right! Who is going to be the

last person to die for the bushits' lies?

[Redstone]

5. Oh, fuck. I think she's related to my sister's ex-husband. I gotta go make a phone call.

Redstone

[jannyk]

8. Oh Redstone - I'm so sorry :( nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. I'm sorry

Pass my sympathies if this is the case

[Pierre.Suave]

6. So sad

truly sad.

[WinkyDink]

7. Lived very close to me, so big local story. Extremely sad and infuriating.

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5soldiermar08,0,1269418.story

[Redstone]

13. Lots and lots of Moyers around your way. Still haven't heard if she's related to my BIL.

Not that I grieve any less for her family if there's no relation.

Every death for nothing is one too many.

Redstone

[HockeyMom]

10. Could be my daughter

Very glad my Nam Vet husband, Republican at that, talked her out of enlisting.

My prayers for her family.

[lostnotforgotten]

11. And George Bush Kills Another Young American - Place The Blame Squarely

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[northofdenali]

12. Ashly, those of us who really care send your family and friends

every bit of good karma and prayers that we can muster. God, the loss of such beauty and soul.

Thank you for your service. You will be very much missed. :cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

GWB, you bastard son of a bitch, I hope YOU and yours will rot in hell for Ashly and every other troop who died so you could make more money. :mad:

[Sherman A1]

14. A terrible waste

sad as are all the others lost in this war based upon lies

[FtWayneBlue]

15. I mourn for the needless loss

to her family and loved ones. I wonder what she was doing there, and hope my stepdaughter Stephanie doesn't get sent there. Steph will finish basic in April and then is planning on a years worth of language training in Monterey, but is already talking of the possibility of having to "go play in the sandbox."

I hope and pray and work night and day to end this senseless war.

[Tinksrival]

16. 25 lost in the first week of March alone.

Christ this is insane! It makes me so crazy to see thousands protest in Latin America and he isn't even their government. And people in this country just look the other way with all this madness going on by THEIR government! ARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!! I am sooooo mad!

[Gman]

17. What a F***ing waste of a life

died for absolutely nothing. what a F***ing waste.

[judaspriestess]

18. RIP sister

Thank you for your service and unfortunately your sacfrice.

[Colobo]

19. What a beautiful girl... what a beautiful life lost because of this sensless war...

[caligirl]

20. she has one of those mega watt smiles. sorry to hear this. Again.

[Lugnut]

21. R.I.P. Ashly

:cry: Enough already.

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[nadinbrzezinski]

24. Why not?

you think we cannot shoot as straight, or take the abuse? Or perhaps serve?

Having fought this attitude myself it is amazing when it rears its ugly heaad

She is a US Soldier, RIP... she died defending your right to spew this garbage

And all I can say to this is... sad that it exists.

[srulifsonmiles]

31. get behind me!

Get it together dude. Take a plane, hitchhike, a train, a boat, walk, but stop shopping at WalMart! See it from another's perspective. Walk in their shoes. Represent the prophet you think you represent.

We invaded a learned country. We invaded a well fed and peaceful country. We have created hell. We are satan, moloch, mammon, belial.

Get behind me.

Read a book. It may burn to do so, but you'll get over it.

http://iraqnam.blogspot.com
Perspective: In the bombing of a book market, a haven turns to ash
A charred body lies untouched as firefighters fight the smoldering flames

BAGHDAD, March 9 -- On a pile of bricks, someone had left a pink plastic flower, a pair of glasses and a book with crisp, white pages. They glowed in the black debris of Mutanabi Street, which by Friday had become a graveyard of memories. At 9:03 a.m., a man in a rumpled brown suit walked past dark banners mourning the dead. He stopped near the flower and the book, which was opened to a chapter on the virtues of Baghdad.

"There is no God but God," he said, his voice disappearing in the cracking sound of a shovel against debris. He stared at the gutted bookshops, hollowed like skulls by the blast and the flames. He lowered his head, fighting back tears.

Then he turned and walked away.

On Friday morning, Iraqis continued to drift to Mutanabi Street, four days after a car bomb took the lives of at least 26 people and injured dozens more. Some came to hunt for the remains of loved ones. Others came to mourn a street that represented the intellectual soul of a nation known for its love affair with books. For many, the narrow warren of shops had seemed to defy Iraq's woes.

[newyawker99]

33. Hi srulifsonmiles!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[donheld]

26. Women should be

barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen right? :eyes:

[AnOhioan]

27. RIP Ms. Moyer

and may the people who put you in harms way be held accountable.

[maggiegault]

28. Holy Mary, Mother Of God

How many more people have to DIE in this war?

How many more?

And where are the little Bush sluts in all of this? They're about that age, aren't they? Why aren't THEY in uniform, over in Iraq?

We need to start a movement here, people, to get those little bimboes over there serving their country in the war that their precious Daddy started.

Ordinarily, I would never advocate anyone going over to Iraq, but for the Bush sluts, I will make an exception.

I'm not sad about this soldier. I'm goddamned MAD.

I have a million smiling photos like this one of my brother and his fellow soldiers. It makes me sick to my stomach.

[lebkuchen]

29. Notification in Stars & Stripes here:

Bush got a lot of mileage from 9/11, though I think the mystic has been wearing off considering how he's now grappling to find troops that are ready to go back to Iraq. But by far the numbers of US dead are under 30, at least lately.

>>>>>>>>>>>

The Pentagon has identified three sergeants from the Bamberg, Germany-based 630th Military Police Company who were killed in Iraq last week.

Sgt. Brandon A. Parr, Sgt. Michael C. Peek and Sgt. Ashly L. Moyer died March 3 in Baghdad when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle, a Department of Defense press release stated.

“He felt it was something he had to do — 9/11 was his motivation to join the Army,” Parr’s wife, Shannah, was quoted as saying in an NBC affiliate KLH report in Salt Lake City. Parr, 25, was from West Valley, Utah. He also is survived by a 4-year-old son, Nicholas, and mother, Teota Dangel. Parr was on his second Iraq deployment.

Peek, a 23-year-old from Chesapeake, Va., was set to get married in a month, according to his MySpace page.

“The big number is … the number of months I have till I say, ‘I do’ for the first and last time of my life,” Peek wrote, following later with, “Right now I have to fight early mornings and late nights here in Iraq, but that is a little price to pay to be part of the best country in the world.”

more...

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=44184

[blues90]

30. So tragic and so sad

I somehow can't imagine a life blown to bits , Oh I do know it happens but to imagine it as another still living person is just to horrifying to comprehend .

[Bigmack]

32. Here's the one that got to me...

What a waste, just like Ashly.

I admit to some sexism here. The loss of anybody is terrible in a war, but when we start sending pretty young girls into the shit.... there's no hope.

And for nothing!
- - - - -
Airman killed in Iraq



9/30/2005 - SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) -- An improvised explosive device killed a female Airman during a convoy mission supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Airman 1st Class Elizabeth Jacobson, 21, was providing convoy security Sept. 28 near Camp Bucca, Iraq, when the vehicle she was riding in was hit by an improvised explosive device.

The Riviera Beach, Fla., native was assigned to the 17th Security Forces Squadron at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas. Airman Jacobson had been in the Air Force for two years and had been deployed to Iraq for more than three months.

She is the first female Airman killed in the line of duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

[baldguy]

34. There are 3192 others. The only ugly things about them are their deaths.