Staff Sgt. Mark Wall Died in Iraq From A Heart Attack at Age 27!!!

[leftchick]

this is horrible.... :cry:



This photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Staff Sgt. Mark Wall, standing at far right, in an undated photo. Wall, 27, of Alden, Iowa, died in Iraq from a non combat-related illness, the Army said Tuesday, May 2, 2006. Wall suffered a cardiac arrest in the dining facility at his unit's base in Mosul Thursday morning, April 27, 2006, Iraq time, Army spokesman Maj. Kirk Gohlke said. Wall was assigned to the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

[dogday]

1. Rest In Peace Staff Sgt. Mark Wall

I will light a second candle tonight for him....:cry:

[DS1]

2. Healthy people drop dead all the time

Series!

[rocktivity]

3. The I know of an 8-year old who dropped dead of a bad heart

and remember that story about the American couple who were traveling in Europe and their seven-year old dropped dead? They donated his organs to six different children, and the Italian goverment gave them the status of national heroes.

:headbang:
rocknation

[madrchsod]

4. alden iowa

http://www.hardincountyonline.com/alden/
Welcome to Alden, Iowa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alden,_Iowa
Alden, Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a lot of people knew him and his family.

[Igel]

5. Here's a link to some background.

National Registry of Myocardial Infarctions

Page 16 (as far as Acrobat is concerned), page 13 by document-internal numeration, has some data on incidence of first heart attack age (one chart begins at about age 35, the point being that there's no absolute lower cutoff, just an asymptote reflecting declining risk with lower ages).

Every once in a while a high school or college athlete drops dead, in otherwise great health, with little or no evidence of a drug that triggered it. Heat, stress, excitement, diet, lifestyle can all contribute to it. Some people have the misfortune of being statistical outliers.

[Coyote_Bandit]

6. My neighbor died earlier this year

of a massive heart attack. She was 30. She was active and appeared to be very healthy. Her death was a tragedy. Her younger sister had a stroke in her mid 20's, both her parents had major heart attacks before age 50, and several other family members had a history of heart disease.

May she and Mark Wall rest in peace.