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Voices of the Fallen (The War In The Words Of The Dead)
Newsweek via MSNBC ^
| April 2, 2007 Issue
| Jon Meacham
Posted on 03/27/2007 6:17:31 PM PDT by SLB
Edited on 03/27/2007 8:00:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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He was exhausted, but he wanted to talk to his daughter, and the only way to do that in Fallujah was to write a letter. "This war is not like the big war-there are no big sweeping maneuvers with hundreds of tanks pouring over the border and so forth," Army Major Michael Mundell told his 17-year-old, Erica (nicknamed "Eddie"), on Friday, Oct. 27, 2006. "It's a fight of 10 man squads in the dark, of ambushes and snipers and IEDs. When I go out to fight, it's usually with less than 20 men ... And I go out to fight almost every day."
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: frwn; gwot; iraq
In his other job Mike Mundell was a research analyst for a defense contractor on Ft Knox. Mike’s office was directly across the hall from mine. Right after Thanksgiving he had been shot in the shoulder by a sniper.
You might want a few Kleenex close by while reading this.
SLB
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posted on
03/27/2007 6:17:32 PM PDT
by
SLB
To: SLB
God rest his soul and bless and comfort his family. Heroes are always loved while here and missed when gone. But they live in our hearts forever.
To: YellowRoseofTx
Heroes are always loved while here and missed when gone. But they live in our hearts forever.Amen.
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posted on
03/27/2007 6:34:33 PM PDT
by
SLB
(Wyoming's Alan Simpson on the Washington press - "all you get is controversy, crap and confusion")
To: SLB
...they live in our hearts forever
Even when we don't personally know them
To: YellowRoseofTx
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posted on
03/27/2007 6:38:44 PM PDT
by
fishergirl
(My warrior, my soldier, my hero - my son. God bless our troops!)
To: SLB; SandRat
Many thanks for bringing us this article.
SandRat, ya wanna ping this to your list? Please?
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posted on
03/27/2007 7:20:04 PM PDT
by
HiJinx
(Ask me about Troop Support...)
To: 91B; HiJinx; Spiff; MJY1288; xzins; Calpernia; clintonh8r; TEXOKIE; windchime; Grampa Dave; ...
FR WAR NEWS!
WAR News at Home and Abroad You'll Hear Nowhere Else!
All the News the MSM refuses to use!
Or if they do report it, without the anti-War Agenda Spin!
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posted on
03/27/2007 10:29:34 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: Admin Moderator
OOPS, I did not have the original source. Glad you did. This came to me in an email from a co-worker. I looked through the earlybird, but could not find it (sort of a cursory search).
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posted on
03/28/2007 1:49:09 AM PDT
by
SLB
(Wyoming's Alan Simpson on the Washington press - "all you get is controversy, crap and confusion")
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