Seven US soldiers killed in A'Stan

[farmgirl]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&e=1&u=/nm/20040129/ts_nm/afghan_usa_deaths_dc

Seven U.S. Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan-U.S. Army
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KABUL (*******) - An explosion in southern Afghanistan (news - web sites) killed seven U.S. soldiers and wounded three others on Thursday, the U.S. army said.

U.S. central command said in a statement the soldiers were killed when working near an arms cache in the southern province of Ghazni on Thursday afternoon. An interpreter was also injured and another soldier was missing, the statement said.




:( RIP

[Javehn]

RIP ...

[farmgirl]

an updated version.....


KABUL (*******) - An explosion near an ammunition dump in southern Afghanistan (news - web sites) killed seven U.S. soldiers and wounded three others on Thursday, the U.S. army said.

U.S. central command said in a statement the soldiers were killed when working near an arms cache in the southern province of Ghazni on Thursday afternoon. An interpreter was also injured and another soldier was missing, the statement said.

"Everything else is under investigation, they'll be wanting to establish exactly what happened," said Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Williams at Central Command in Florida.

The wounded soldiers were evacuated to a field hospital at the U.S. military's Bagram air base near Kabul, the statement said.

The U.S. military leads a 12,000-strong force in Afghanistan hunting Taliban and al Qaeda remnants after a U.S.-led campaign ousted the Taliban in 2001.

[Trident-za]

Ouch :( RIP

[anonymous individual]

Rest in Peace

[-Max2-]

RIP :(

[Loco]

Perhaps it was an accident, it would be preferible than an attack. Anyway, I´m sorry, RIP.

[oldsoak]

:( RIP

[memphiz]

RIP :(

[ariweiner]

RIP

I don't know how reliable they are, but there are reports that a remote-controlled mine was detonated by Taliban guerillas.

[Jack Mehoff]

fvck

[Vance]

RIP

[Luxembourger]

RIP :(

[SEALInTheMaking]

Rest in Peace boys. Thank you for your service.

[Armour recon]

They came when they were called,
They asked for little and received less.
They fought for honor and truth,
In a world in which there was precious little.
We have been made better for their sacrifice
And yet we are poorer by their passing.
Ultimately in spite of their lost lives,
We must recognize that the greatest loss lies with us;
For we have been stripped of their lives and their gifts.
Of all the children they will never father,
of the students they will never tutor,
of the truth they will never uncover,
of the dreams they had that no mortal will ever know,
of the best of humanity that they can never again be.

We cannot remember them as well as we should,
We will never remember them as well as we do now.
Alas, we barely knew them at all.
But they died in out stead,
And if there is one thing we should know,
one thing we must take from this desolate moment;
it is that they could have been us,
and they must be us.
We must live for them.
We must try to achieve the promise that was embodied their lives,
before they were so nobly cast aside for our sake.
This is the only way
we can shoulder this otherwise unbearable debt.
By their selfless sacrifice they have shown
that this is how they would have had it,
had they by some accident of fate
been left as the living
and not we.


Our Loss
By Irvine Bruce

[NcDeuce]

R.I.P.

[Uncle Sam]

:(

[Trigger]

Rest In Peace fellas. :(