Leicester soldier killed by sniper fire in Iraq

[leftchick]

LEICESTER – Every downed helicopter in Iraq sent renewed fear through the parents of pilot Mitch Carver, especially during his second tour of Iraq.

“He told us when he went home that he was shot at every time he went up, and was hit once,” said Judy Carver.

But a new kind of apprehension took hold after she learned Friday morning that a Kiowa helicopter had gone down over the northern city of Mosul. The knock on the door seemed imminent. Not wanting to miss it, Judy Carver left a note on the door of her Leicester home in case it came while she took a shower.

She was just starting to relax, mistaking no news for good news, when the U.S. Army representatives finally came Friday evening.

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060114/NEWS01/60114020/1001

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Two thousand, two hundred and eighteen...

...and they'll send him home unembalmed, and with no military escort.

:grr::grr::grr::grr:

[cantstandbush]

2. And his mourning family will not even be able to see his casket

honored on national TV.

"How long? Not long."

[Botany]

3. Blessings and prayers on his soul and for his family & friends

Mitch Carver :patriot:

How many more George, how many?

:cry: