[Diva Betsy Ross]

Thanks for the ping Gothmog. It is great to read this. Ping to Ragtime Cowgirl for positive coverage of our heroes.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks, Diva.

  

Thursday May 13, 12:13 AM

The family of Army Pfc. Nathan Brown, from left, brother Christopher L. Brown, mother Kathy Brown, and father Ricky L. Brown walk into St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church in Glens Falls, N.Y., for the soldier's funeral service on Tuesday, April 20, 2004. Brown was killed April 11, 2004, in Samarra, Iraq., when a rocket-propelled grenade, or RPG, struck their diesel truck. Fellow serviceman Troy Mechanick, wounded in the same attack, said that traveling in a slow-moving five-ton diesel truck on April 11 was ``a bad tactical decision'' in light of prior intelligence reports in the Samarra area. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight)

---

 Pfc.Nathan Brown

Nathan Brown wanted to become a lawyer and was preparing to enroll in Adirondack Community College in January when his Army National Guard unit was deployed to Iraq.

The 21-year-old had joined the guard shortly after graduating from high school in South Glens Falls, about 45 miles north of Albany, N.Y.    -

 

.......a soldier who killed 20 or more Iraqi insurgents when his patrol was ambushed on Easter Sunday. Spec. Timmy Haag of South Glens Falls, N.Y., made his remarkable display of courage and cool under fire as C Company, 2nd Battalion of the 108th Light Infantry was conducting a sweep of southern Samarra in open 5-ton trucks. The vehicles are so slow and high-riding that it borders on the criminal to transport soldiers on them into a known hot spot bristling with rocket-propelled grenades.

 

---------------------------------------

 

   Spec. Timmy Haag, courage under fire....hero.

 

 

 

God protect him from enemies - both foreign and domestic.