Stark reminder that there doesn’t have to be a war for these kids to die.
Dont know if I remember reading about this.
What a nightmare.
My daughter Elen is a U.S. Marine. Accidents, especially driving accidents, are the main cause of death for our troops.
I’m a Desert Shield/Desert Storm vet. We (DOD) had, IIRC, 258 fatalities in that action. What was remarkable about it was that we normally lose more people than that in training incidents each year. Those weren’t the only fatalities, of course. My unit lost our logistics guy at home to a heart attack while we were deployed.There were others, world-wide, that weren’t counted as combat casualties. It’s a rough world.
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