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Posted on 04/10/2003 11:15:14 PM PDT by JustPiper
In Basra and in Baghdad, the people celebrate, but in Clio, Mich., and in Rawlings, Md., they mourn. The Pentagon has released the identities of four more American servicemen killed in Iraq. They are from Clio, Rawlings, Pendleton, Ore., and Birmingham, Ala., and they include one man who was on the telephone with his wife 30 minutes before an enemy shell destroyed the command post where he was working.
That was Army Spc. George A. Mitchell of Rawlings, who told his wife he thought he might apply for a deputy's job at the county sheriff's office when he returned. "He jokingly asked me if I could put up with him in the police force and I joked back that I'd put up with him in the Army," said Brenda Sue Mitchell, the widow of Mitchell, 35, and the mother of their two children, Brandee, 3, and Joshua, 23 months. George Mitchell also has a son, 10, from a previous marriage.
The Mitchells married in 2000. They met in a Wal-Mart where they both worked. George Mitchell rejoined the Army in 2001 after having completed a six-year hitch in the late 1980s. He missed the camaraderie.
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God bless this man's wife, children and other loved ones. May they find peace and comfort, somehow, during this sad time.
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