Great job kristinn!
Just so you can slap the COMMIE MOMMIE with the facts again... ask her if she even know the name of the fallen Soldier.
RIP Staff Sgt. George T. Alexander
Killeen soldier raises Iraq toll
By Debbie Stevenson and Jimmie Ferguson
Killeen Daily Herald
The death of a Killeen resident serving in the 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq raised the military’s death toll to 2,000 this weekend.
Staff Sgt. George T. Alexander died Saturday at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio from injuries sustained in a roadside bomb attack Oct. 17 in Samarra, a Pentagon news release stated Tues-day.
Alexander’s wife, Fina Alexander, said she learned by telephone for an Army official that she should be proud of Alexander’s heroic act before his death.
“The officer said Alexander had attempted to remove all his soldiers from the burning vehicle and secured the site of the attack — saving a number of his soldiers’ lives in exchange of his own,” Fina Alexander said.
Alexander was in a Bradley fighting vehicle when the bomb detonated. He was assigned to the 3rd Infantry’s 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade at Fort Benning, Ga.
Alexander, 34, was a husband and loving father of boy, 8; and a girl, 6, said his wife in Killeen.
He served in Desert Storm, and this was his third tour to Iraq, his wife said.
Officials at Fort Hood said Alexander was born in Virginia and was last stationed at Fort Hood in 1996.
Fort Hood, which has had a continued presence in Kuwait and Iraq since January 2003, has lost 151 soldiers. Of those, 90 were from the 1st Cavalry Division’s 17,000-plus troops who spent a year to 14 months in Baghdad, beginning mostly in March 2004.
The 4th Infantry Division, which is in the midst of returning to Iraq by December, returned to Fort Hood in April 2004 after losing 81 from its Task Force Ironhorse ranks during its year spent patrolling three dangerous provinces to Baghdad’s north that have been dubbed the “Sunni Triangle.”
Earlier Tuesday, the chief spokesman for the American-led multinational force called on reporters covering the conflict not to look at the 2,000th death since March 2003 as a milestone.
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, director of the force’s combined press center, told the Associated Press that the number is an “artificial mark on the wall.”
“I ask that when you report on the events, take a moment to think about the effects on the families and those serving in Iraq,” Boylan said in an e-mail. “The 2,000 service members killed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom is not a milestone. It is an artificial mark on the wall set by individuals or groups with specific agendas and ulterior motives.
“The 2,000th soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine that is killed in action is just as important as the first that died and will be just as important as the last to die in this war against terrorism and to ensure freedom for a people who have not known freedom in over two generations,” Boylan wrote.
He complained to the AP that the true milestones of the war were “rarely covered or discussed,” and said they included the troops who had volunteered to serve, the families of those that have been deployed for a year or more, and the Iraqis who have sought at great risk to restore normalcy to their country.
Boylan said they included Iraqis who sought to join the security forces and had became daily targets for insurgent attacks at recruiting centers, those who turned out to vote in the constitutional referendum, and those who chose to risk their lives by joining the government.
“Celebrate the daily milestones, the accomplishments they have secured and look to the future of a free and democratic Iraq and to the day that all of our troops return home to the heroes’ welcome they deserve,” Boylan wrote.
http://www.kdhnews.com/texas1.htmlspif from Arizona was still in town and had fun. We met a nice young lady from Arkansas who claimed she was in town for a candle convention. I also had a chance to meet a very articulate young man from Greenbelt,MD. He has to be to only person in Greenbelt that proudly wears a Bush Cheney hat as Greenbelt, aka Tugwell Town, is a close second to Takoma Park in it's left leanings. Anyway, he got to be called a traitor to his race.
In honor of BufordP I did give pizza chants, cry out for sausage pizza, pepperoni pizza which was somehow lost on the left. Earlier I informed the leftys that the Iraq Constitution was certified as approved and that 20 privileged Cubans had jumped ship to seek asylum in the US. The beauty part of the die in was that the LEOs let them lay on the cool ground before they were ceremonial arrested.
All the local news broadcasts showed the leftist die-in and the FReeper counterprotest. Kristinn was prominent in at least two of the pieces, I didn't see any of the third. Two showed the couple whose son died in Iraq and interviewed one or both of them. One showed some of the nutcase leftists who were madly ranting in our faces. The old hairy gray bearded nutball that looked like he'd been sleeping in the gutter was prominently shown scream unintelligably. Shots of FReepers with flags and signs such as "U.S.A. is not the Enemy", "We Support our Troops' Mission in Iraq", "Cindy Sheehan Does Not Speak for Us", and "Let Our Troops Finish Their Mission" were prominent.
