Missing soldier’s body is found

[unhappycamper]

Benjamin Sherman was on his second tour of duty.


Missing soldier’s body is found
By Milton J. Valencia
Globe Staff / November 11, 2009

The body of a US Army soldier from Plymouth, a 21-year-old who was about to become a father, was found in Afghanistan yesterday, nearly a week after he and a comrade went missing and were feared to have fallen into the hands of the Taliban.

Benjamin Sherman, a paratrooper with the Fourth Brigade Combat Team of the 82d Airborne Division, and a fellow soldier disappeared Nov. 4 when they went to retrieve supplies dropped into a river in western Afghanistan. Sherman may have tried to help his struggling comrade when both got caught up in the current, the military told his family.

The Army spent a week searching for the two soldiers, and their efforts were heightened with the Taliban claiming last week that it had recovered the bodies. Soon after, US and NATO forces pounded enemy strongholds in a search for the men. According to reports, 25 members of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force and Afghan forces were wounded in the search.

The Taliban later released a statement saying they had not recovered the bodies.

The identity of the other soldier was not known yesterday, and it was not immediately clear whether his body had been found. Following policy, military officials do not discuss details of a soldier’s death until days after the family has been notified.


Rest of article at: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/11/11/missing_soldiers_body_is_found/



unhappycamper comment: To date nine hundred eighteen American soldiers have died in the continuing occupation of Afghanistan --> http://icasualties.org/oef/

[babylonsister]

1. Do you think he drowned? How sad. nt

[Th1onein]

2. I wondered the same thing.

And, yeah, it is sad.