Jason Dene recalled: 'He was a warrior'
Terry Deane said his son, Jason Dene, would not have wanted to die in bed.
"He would have rather died, I'm sure, on top of his Humvee with his machine gun in his hand," Deane said Thursday.
The Department of Defense announced Wednesday that Dene, 37, a sergeant first class serving with the 3rd Infantry Division, died during the weekend following a "noncombat related incident."
"He volunteered for every war there was while he was in, whether it was Haiti, Serbia, Bosnia," Deane said. "He was a terrific father and a great son. He loved the Army. He was a warrior."
Dene was three weeks away from coming home, Deane said, and was to be transferred to Fort Irwin in California. He would have served 20 years in February.
"He says he was going to retire," Deane said. "I don't know that he would have if he found a base he liked."
"He's another casualty of war, regardless of whether he died in combat," Deane said. "He thought the war was just and right, but didn't think we were fighting it correctly. He thought we needed more help there."
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Raging moonbat idiot. God Bless Sgt Dene, but his kin are lunatics.
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May God bless all of the loved ones with comfort and peace.
Hmmmm, two totally different views; the father’s version sounds more likely, since he knew Sgt. Dane better than did the anti-war relatives. It’s sad but not surprising that the activists would use their own family in order to voice their disapproval.
In other words, this raving anti-Semite is blaming Jews.
"During his three 15-month tours in Iraq, exposure to roadside bombs and other job-related injuries caused Jason to be hospitalized several times for concussion and internal bleeding and other injuries. Recently, Jason's condition was such that the Department of Defense flew him from Iraq to Dover Air Force Base for surgery. He was released from the hospital into the loving arms of the government who sent him directly back into Iraq. He was put on active duty while he was still on a liquid diet, unable to eat solid food because of a throat hemorrhage due to a botched surgery at a military hospital.Moonbat rhetoric aside, these incidents happen far too often. Nation-building with insufficient troops is nasty business, and we have been doing it for a long time.
STOP right there. Stop Loss has been around much, much longer than President Bush. Is there any chance at a that a reporter would mention this glaring error?
What the heck does an uncle know about the medical condition and mental status of a soldier whose father says the man was right where he wanted to be?
One of these two men is lying through his teeth.
You choose.
As if this is some kind of revelation coming from someone like Mia Farrow.
God bless this father in his grief and loss. And his son, and his son's family who pay the price of freedom. Its a shame when a family's immediate grief and anger is played through the news by others to score partisan points. Folks should consider this.. when they feel they need to complain about his statement.
brings to mind an article written by William F Buckley many years ago when he exposed Eleanor Roosevelt who claimed she could never shake the hand of Sen Joseph McCarthy but, Buckley pointed out- she had no problem while she was at the UN with shaking the hand of Stalin's hangman Andrei Vyshinsky who was directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. One really needs a psychiatrist to explain much of left wing logic.
Mentally ill anti American skunks turn my stomach.
May G-d comfort the family.
He died of natural causes (reportedly). But it is STILL Bush’s fault.
As was the woman who died crossing the highway in Kansas while on leave.
These people (the critics not the soldiers) are nuts AND dangerous.
Say what you want about Mia Farrow... but I’ll say this - unlike most libs, she *really* walks the walk. She has 1000x more credibility than most limousine libs. She is no Susan Sarandon or Alec Baldwin, that is for darn sure.
If I see him during our annual summer visit I'll be sure to remind him that his nephew was a hero and that he should get help for his acute BDS.