Newborn loses dad in Iraq - Former Rockland resident was a Whitman-Hanson graduate and a new father

[Chico Man]

Source: The Patriot Ledger

Sgt. William J. Callahan will never get to hold his baby boy.

The 28-year-old Marine, a former Rockland resident and Whitman-Hanson Regional High School graduate, was killed in combat in Iraq on Friday.

Callahan, a 1997 graduate of Whitman-Hanson, joined the Marines in 2002 and trained as an ordnance disposal technician. He lived most recently in South Easton.

He leaves behind his newborn son, Daniel, and his wife, Amy Callahan.

‘‘She just had a baby a couple weeks ago,’’ said his father, Joseph Callahan III. ‘‘His wife meant the world to him.’’



Read more: http://www.southofboston.com/articles/2007/05/01/headlines/news/news01.txt

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This was a very good friend of my brother in law.. his wife has been a family friend since the mid 1980's. I can't believe this has hit so close to home.

[Ilsa]

1. Bush has made so many kids fatherless, here and there in Iraq.

I am so sorry for your family's loss of a friend.

[xultar]

2. Thanks Bush, Cheney, Rice, Tenet, Asscroft and all the other PNAC muthafuckas.

[StarryNite]

3. But nobody suffers

as much as shrub and his little Stepford wife.

[La_Fourmi_Rouge]

5. Yeah, Laura's brow has been furrowed for 5 years now.

Oh, the humanity!

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Laura_Bush_No_one_suffers_more_0425.html">'No one suffers more than their president and I do'

[maddezmom]

4. thanks for posting

IIRC, we were speaking about this family the other day. Saying prayers, lighting candles and feeling helpless to let this family know how much I feel for them. :(

[MethuenProgressive]

6. Thank you for telling us about Billy and his family.

I see he joined in '02, like so many brave and patriotic young people did.
God bless his wife, child, family, and friends.

[FloridaJudy]

7. Words fail at times like these.

I wish there were something I could say to make this easier. There isn't.
I'm so sorry.

[Imagevision]

8. Pelosi keeping "impeachment" off the table should not be her decision to make!!