Reply #3: Suppport our troops -- bring them HOME NOW!

[mongo]

That would be the best way to support them.

A story from today in our local paper. This one had me choked up this morning -- the guy was coming home. Families have to really steel themselves when they have a loved one in harms way. I can only imagine that they would have let their gaurd down with the news of a firm date that he was coming home. I feel so sorry for them.

Morgan grad killed in Iraq attack
By KATHY THOMPSON
Staff Writer

MALTA - With only hours left before coming home to his wife and family and a month before his next birthday, Staff Sgt. Curtis Anthony Mitchell of Malta was killed in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday.

Tony, 28, as he was known to his friends and family, was on his second tour in Iraq with his unit, the 3rd Squadron, 7th U.S. Calvary, Company C and loving every minute of it.

"He loved the Army and being with the guys," said his younger brother, Spc. Jimmy Mitchell, who was with the same unit. Jimmy returned from Iraq Thursday morning to help escort his brother home for the last time.
The Mitchell family is currently in Georgia at Ft. Stewart with Tony's widow, Frankie, and her family. Final funeral arrangements have not yet been made, Jimmy said.

http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051216/NEWS01/512160304/1002