Posted on 03/08/2016 5:05:10 PM PST by Lera
Taylor Force murdered on school trip to Israel, wife severely injured in stabbing spree -- the day's third terror attack; several other victims critical
The American tourist killed in Tuesday's terror attack in Tel Aviv was identified as 29-year-old Taylor Force, a graduate student at Vanderbilt University, the school said in a statement.
Force, a Lubbock, Texas native, was killed and at least 10 people were injured Tuesday evening when a Palestinian man carried out a stabbing spree in Jaffa. Five of the injured were described as being in critical condition.
The attack was the third of the day; two policemen were badly hurt in a Jerusalem shooting earlier, and a 40-year-old father-of-five was stabbed repeatedly and moderately injured in an attack in Petah Tikva before managing to stab his assailant with his own knife.
Force was a US army veteran, according to his LinkedIn profile and an article published on a business school review website. He graduated from West Point Military Academy in 2009 and served as a field artillery officer from 2009-2014 at Fort Hood.
There was no immediate confirmation from the US Department of Defense.
Force's wife was severely injured in the attack, according to Zaki Heller, spokesperson for the Magen David Adom ambulance service.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
Field Artillery Officer United States Army May 2009 – August 2014 (5 years 4 months)
Served as a Fire Support Officer, Personal Security Detachment Platoon Leader, Fire Direction Officer, Howitzer Platoon Leader, Battery Executive Officer, Battalion Fire Support Officer, and Battalion Assistant S-3 in the 4th and 2nd Brigade Combat Teams, 1st Cavalry Division. Deployments include Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn (Iraq), and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-force-86705657
I don’t recognize the name but we overlapped time at Hood. Rest well fellow Redleg and First Team Soldier.
Halfway down the road to hell,
In a shady meadow green,
Are the souls of all dead troopers camped
Near a good old-time canteen.
And this eternal resting place
Is known as Fiddler’s Green.
-Author Unknown
“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”
-Maj. Gen. James Mattis, USMC
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Too late now I guess, but being within a mile and an hour by most accounts, I think a short detour by Biden to visit the deceased's critically injured spouse would have been a kind act. Not required, but kind.
And the oft repeated morally relativistic statement from the Arabist US State Dept :
“We continue to encourage all parties to take affirmative steps to reduce tensions and restore calm.”
This crap wouldn’t be tolerated under a Cruz administration.
R.I.P.
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