Soldier, W. Lafayette Graduate, Killed Thursday In Iraq

[Hissyspit]

Source: Journal & Courier (Indiana)

Soldier, WL graduate, killed Thursday in Iraq
STAFF REPORTS

A graduate of West Lafayette High School was killed in Iraq on Thursday. Spc. Andrew Robert Weiss of in the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army was killed Thursday afternoon during a patrol, according to his mother, Judith Weiss. Weiss was 28 years old.

He graduated from West Lafayette High School in 1997 and from Vincennes University in 2000 with a degree in building construction.

Surviving him are a wife, Margaret, a 4-year-old daughter, Lillian, and a 1-year-old son, Jacob. They live in Fort Hood, Texas, where Weiss was stationed before going to Iraq.

For more on this story, read Saturday's Journal & Courier.

Read more: http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070504/NEWS/70504031/1152/NEWS

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This is DUer maggiegault's brother. Her thread announcing his death is here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=814372&mesg_id=814372

[Monkeyman]

1. RIP

[Hissyspit]

9. SPC Weiss:

[Miss Chybil]

2. What a loss. What a horrible loss. nt

[Buzz Clik]

3. We just buried one of our own two weeks ago.

And, once again, the soldier's mom works at our school.

Our youngest brought home a list of our community's soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and next week they were to bring items for goodie bags to send to them.

This is so very sad.

[FightingIrish]

4. His sister's DU post was the highest recommended I have seen

She posted yesterday on DU as maggiegault. I posted a link to her blog http://lauralinger.blogspot.com/ Go spend some time on it. It hurts but you have to do it. Go back to November 2006 when Andy deployed.

Her blog is a window into one family touched by this horrible mistake they are still trying to sell as a war. Imagine if you could see what 3,363 senseless deaths does up close and personal to all the people affected.

I was in tears as I tried to work yesterday. Thank God I'm self employed. Today I am just angry. Laura doesn't have the luxury of going straight to pissed off, but most of us still do. Holding up a sign won't cut it for me anymore. I want these bastards to pay for how little they care about the bright young people they send to cover their lame asses. Point me to the uprising. I'm in.

[Hissyspit]

5. Yes, I've been here since before the recommendation system, and it is almost assuredly

the most recommended post ever. It's just tragic and criminal that it had to be posted at all.

[Tess49]

6. I read her entry about meeting his casket so he wouldn't be alone.

Heartbreaking.

[Ilsa]

7. I wish our DUers near Killeen could help. I'd go if I was a single

woman still living in Dallas.

This breaks my heart. And there are thousands of other stories that are so very much like this one. It makes my body ache thinking about all of this emotional pain.

[pinto]

8. to maggiegault and all of Spc. Weiss' family, it was terrible to hear of your loss.

May all comfort be with with you and yours at this time.

[Acadia Blue]

10. Someone's husband, daddy, son.....died for GW and Dick and

their unnecessary war. This young man is the moral superior of the greed pigs he died supporting.Bush and Cheney were to chicken to go to Vietnam. Too rich, too priviledged, too elitist.
But people like this poor kid, they don't matter to Bush and Cheney and the neo -con pigs.