How many more casualties of the Iraq War like this are going unnoticed?

[bleedingheart]

http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030817ross0817p1.asp

"Unlike Lynch, Ross did not come home to international fanfare that drew hundreds of media representatives and well-wishers to his tiny town. No television networks broke into regular programming to document his reunions with relatives and friends, and they probably won't show up for the comparatively modest parade in Dunbar and ceremony at the nearby Fayette County Fairgrounds that his neighbors are throwing for him and other local service people next Sunday."


This story has been haunting me for weeks.

[Cha]

1. The True Hero! What a bunch of crap this all this is that the

Soldiers aren't getting the attention they deserve!

[bleedingheart]

2. this story just makes me cry... he was disarming US bomblets

to save innocent children from getting killed and in the end he loses his sight and a leg...

I go from sad to rage thinking about this....

[Zhade]

3. This is an outrage.

We only make heroes out of 1) myths or 2) killers.

No notice for the ones who want to save lives.

What have our people become, to praise death over life?

[ComerPerro]

4. This really touched a nerve

"The next day, he was searching for an Army recruiter to sign up for a shot at an education, a career and a fulfilling life. Ross was stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina with the 82nd Airborne Division's 307th Engineering Battalion before shipping out in February for Iraq."

<<<snip>>>

"'It tore a hole in me when they told me about my leg. But now I'd let them cut off my arms and legs for my sight,' he said, adding that he was not optimistic about ever regaining it"




This is the real problem with the war. Many people just signed up to try to get an education.

Meanwhile our Asshole in Chief stands there, smirking, saying things like "bring it on".