seven today

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http://icasualties.org/oif/prdDetails.aspx?hndRef=5-2007

[Monkeyman]

1. Dam Bro RIP

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2. Thanks for the link

[frogcycle]

3. here's another

Faces

There are links to several other sources at the bottom of the front page.

I have fallen behind on getting photos and links, will try to catch up tomorrow. April is pretty complete, and the first few days of May. They released a lot of names in the last couple of days.

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4. Oh my that is heart wrenching, I'll have to save it and go back later

...after I've had a chance to prepare myself emotionally to view those listed on that site. :cry:

[Clark2008]

5. Sergeant 1st Class James David Connell Jr.,

killed Saturday, was from my neck of the woods.

Read about him on the front page today.

Every Sunday, the Connell family in Lake City gathers for dinner.

This past Sunday, they gathered to mourn the passing of Sgt. 1st Class James David Connell Jr., 40, a platoon sergeant in the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division who was killed Saturday during his second tour in Iraq.

SNIP

When Connell was in East Tennessee on leave earlier this month, he visited Lake City Middle School and talked about the work and the military lifestyle, his children said Sunday.

He spoke to his 12-year-old son Bryan's class and 14-year-old daughter Courtney's class.

Family members said Connell had just recovered from a shrapnel wound to his one of his legs when he came home for two weeks of leave.

SNIP

She said that during her father's leave, he took each of his three children out of school for one day to spend the day with them. He took his oldest son, 16-year-old Nick, horseback riding in the Smokies. He took Bryan to Knoxville Center and to a movie.

Courtney wanted to go to West Town Mall. She wanted to get a pedicure and so did her father. They got them together, she said, her face brightening at the memory.

SNIP

In the back bedroom of the Connell home, Connell's father, James Sr., looked at pictures from his son's most recent military leave on a flat-screen monitor.

The pictures appeared one at a time, an electronic slide show from just one week ago when the family had celebrated Bryan's birthday.

In one picture, he stands on a trampoline with the younger children of the family. In another, he sits in uniform on the couch with his two sons.

http://knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_5535577,00.html

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6. thanks

I added pic and link

I am a displaced E. Tennessean myself.

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7. article on the three MIA

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/15/iraq/main2803341.shtml