Reply #12: Two Maine guardsmen killed in Iraq

[MaineDem]

Two members of the Maine Army National Guard were killed and a third was seriously injured when a roadside bomb tore through their convoy in Iraq, Gov. John Baldacci said Monday.

Staff Sgt. Dale Kelly Jr., 48, of Richmond and Staff Sgt. David Veverka, 25, a University of Maine senior from Jamestown, Pa., died in the attack Saturday. Spc. Christopher Fraser, 19, of Windsor survived and remains hospitalized in Germany.

Baldacci said it was the worst day for Maine's soldiers in Iraq since the December 2004 suicide bombing at a dining hall in Mosul that also killed two guardsmen and injured others.

Since the start of the war in 2003, six Maine Army National Guard members have lost their lives, as have 13 other Maine servicemen.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/060509sold...

Nineteen from Maine so far. That's atrocious!

The U of Maine graduation is Saturday. How sad that they have to remember this death when they should be celebrating.

RIP, Sergeants!