Co-Workers Inlaw Killed in Iraq. Prayers please?

Seattle Times ^ | 3/26/03 | The Associated Press

[OneVike]

Please forgive me for reposting this but I am trying to get a huge response. I want to get a copy of the responses and prayers to the family.

A co-worker of mine has lost an inlaw in Iraq. The exact relationship to him does not matter. I come to you and ask for your prayers for his family. What fallows is his name and info that is already in the media.

Cpl. Randal Kent Rosacker, 21, San Diego, Calif

• Nine Marines, fighting near An Nasiriyah, encountered Iraqi troops pretending to surrender, March 23. Sgt. Michael E. Bitz, 31, Ventura, Calif.; Lance Cpl. Brian Rory Buesing, 20, of Cedar Key, Fla.; Lance Cpl. David K. Fribley, 26, Lee, Fla., Cpl. Jose A. Garibay, 21, Orange, Calif.; Cpl. Jorge A. Gonzalez, 20, Los Angeles; Staff Sgt. Phillip A. Jordan, 42, Brazoria, Texas; 2nd Lt. Frederick E. Pokorney Jr., 31, Nye, Nev.; Cpl. Randal Kent Rosacker, 21, San Diego, Calif.; Lance Cpl. Thomas J. Slocum, age unknown, Adams, Colo.

[Spunky]

I will pray for the family and friends of Cpl. Randal Kent Rosacker.

My prayers also go out for all those families who have lost a loved one. My prayers are also for those young service men who are there fighting to help make a better life for the Iraqi's and to protect us from a madman.

[Saundra Duffy]

Oh, I am so sorry for this great loss. Such a fine, young man. He is in a better place. He's our hero and we're all proud of him. God bless the family and God bless America. No greater love . . . than to lay down his life for his friends. Thank you from a grateful nation. We are grieving with the family and friends.

[in the Arena]

Father Of Fallen Marine Had Just Returned From Deployment

If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
01 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

Missing In Action
24 March 1970
Cambodia

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

I think its ok to post this.. so here goes. What a wonderful write up and tribute to both FATHER and SON.

Thanks for pointing this out!

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Father Of Fallen Marine Had Just Returned From Deployment

March 25, 2003

By KOMO Staff & News Services




BREMERTON - The father of a Marine killed during fighting in Iraq knew the bad news when one of his daughters told him that two Marines and a chaplain were at the front door.

Cpl. Randal Kent Rosacker of San Diego was among 10 Marines killed in fighting near An Nasiriyah, about 230 miles southwest of Baghdad. He was 21.

His father, Navy Command Master Chief Rod Rosacker, is based at Naval Station Bremerton and assigned as chief of the boat for the Trident ballistic missile submarine USS Alabama. He returned home after several months away on Monday, only to hear that night about his son's death.

"He just wanted to do something for his country and that's what he did," Rosacker said. "He was doing what he wanted to."

Randal Rosacker was the oldest of three children, and the couple's only son. He grew up in San Diego, where his wife, Brooke, lives.

At Rosacker's home in the hills of San Diego, his wife grew teary-eyed as she declined a reporter's request to speak about her husband. "I don't want to say anything right now," the young woman said, "It's just too crazy."

Rosacker was a machine gunner with the Marines, based at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

He was deployed to the Middle East shortly after the start of the year.

Rosacker joined the Marines when he was 18, despite scholarship offers to play college football, his father said.

"His goal was Force Recon," he said, the Marines' special operations team.

Rod Rosacker and his wife, Debra, received letters from their son from the Middle East. The letters, written on used food containers, said how he missed them and complaining of sandstorms. His parents mailed him some boxes Monday, with letters, candy and some bandanas for protection against blowing sand.

He leaves behind two sisters, 14 and 21. "They're taking it hard, like you'd expect," their father said.

He said the family will have a military service for their son somewhere in Colorado, where he was born, and where he told his parents he wanted to buried if anything happened to him.

[CJ Wolf]

Prayers for a fallen hero and his family.

[billbears]

My prayers added for this family of a brave man who served his country. Added to the Daily Prayer Thread

[CARDINALRULES]

[OneVike]

Thank you fellow Freepers for all your kind words and prayers. I will now print this thread and give it to my friend and with any luck we will get it to the family.

Dear Lord our father in heaven, We humble ourselves before you as we ask that you bless us and forgive us of our sins.

Lord we find ourselves to be at a disadvantage as to what you have in store for the family of Kent Rosacker, but we except what you decree. We ask that you lay a blessing upon the family of a fallin soldier who wanted nothing more tham to give freedom to a people he knew not. We sit back in our safe abode as we watch the events unfold in front of us on television, and we look in awe as we see the destruction of our enemy.

The family of Cpl. Randal Kent Rosacker will forever remember a moment that we will eventually forget. My lord, we ask that you grant us the grace of this family to except such a tragedy when it befalls us.

Dear Lord our Father in Heavan, please grant us wisdom to understand the lessons you put before us, and except them even if they are not what we expected. Grant our country grace as we head into the storm that will sureley befall us, even with victory. In Jesus name we pray .........AMEN

[trussell]

Prayers for peace and comfort.

Blessings,
trussell

[potlatch]

Prayers for the family of an American hero.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

God bless you Cpl. Rosacker! You truly are a hero and I thankyou for your sacrifice on my behalf. RIP

And may God grant His grace and comfort to all of his loved ones. We'll be praying for them at our house.

God bless America and God bless our troops!

[nyconse]

I will pray for this brave young man and his familiy. God Bless. NO greater love......

[CDHart]

I pray that God will hold this family close to Him and comfort them in their time of need.

Carolyn

[harpseal]

Praying for them

[Constitution Day]

Dear Lord, hear my prayer for Cpl. Randal Kent Rosacker, who died in honorable service to our country.
May he find eternal comfort in your loving arms.

[Tijeras_Slim]

God bless Cpl. Randal Kent Rosacker who gave his life serving the cause of freedom and right.

May the Lord give comfort to his family.

[MeekOneGOP]

Prayers for the family . . .

[Darnright]

Cpl. Randal Kent Rosacker, and the rest of your fallen comrades, we owe you a great debt. You have paid for our freedom with your lives. Please know we will honor your memory always.

[xJones]

May God sustain and carry Cpl. Randal Kent Rosacker's family through this terrible time of grief.

[CJ Wolf]

Prayer Bump!