>>> CHECK IN if you have lost someone to any war <<<

[Omaha Steve]

Dennis Died in Nam. His mom learned it on network nightly news when his camp was overrun.

I lost uncles and cousins in WWII and Korea.

David came home from Iraq, but has never been the same.

OS

[hrmjustin]

1. I lost a cousin in Iraq.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_Phillip_Esposito_and_Louis_Allen
My cousin was Louis Allen.

[uppityperson]

2. awwwwwwwww

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Not exactly a family member...

But the brother-in-law of my son-in-law died in Iraq of a road-side bomb.

All the rest of my family that saw any action came home...

[hrmjustin]

4. I am sorry to hear that.

My cousin was killed in June of 2005

[JaneyVee]

5. An uncle I never met in Vietnam and 2 friends in Iraq 2004 & 2005.

[Old Codger]

6. Lost

My father in WWII.....

[kestrel91316]

7. My g-g-g-g-g-grandfather, Lt. James Albert Guinal, died in the Battle of Oriskany in the

Revolutionary War. Damned Brits. But I don't hold a grudge. We still won, and his daughter, born after he died, grew up and married well enough.

I am lucky that he's the only one I know of to have died in war. My dad served a year in Nam flying reconnaissance for the USAF. He had one very close call with a MiG that he spoke of.

[Arcanetrance]

8. 2 cousins and a childhood friend in iraq

[vt_native]

9. My Grandfather, William Howard Schubart, Jr.

died when a Japanese submarine sank the U.S.S. Cooper off of Leyte Gulf in the Phillipines.

[snacker]

10. I lost a dear cousin

It was during the Vietnam War, but an accident in the South China Sea.

"...on that fateful morning, June 3, 1969 when USS Frank E. Evans (DD 754) collided with the Australian Aircraft Carrier HMAS Melbourne (R21) and was cut in half. The forward section of USS Frank E. Evans (DD 754) sank in 1100 fathoms of water within two minutes. Seventy-four lives were lost."

http://www.ussfee.org/the74.html

It happened two days before my high school graduation.

[Lugnut]

11. I lost a cousin in Iraq.

He was a 30 year old newlywed.

http://projects.militarytimes.com/valor/army-sgt-1st-class-paul-d-karpowich/573046

[shanti]

12. lost a cousin in nam

he died at hai phong in 1968. he was 21.

[Bay Boy]

13. Does my great great grandfather

during the Civil War count?

[SummerSnow]

14. My uncle died in Vietnam.1966.He was 19.I never met him.

But I read letters he wrote to my mom asking her if I was walking yet.

[neverforget]

15. My dad's cousin was killed at Pearl Harbor on the USS Oklahoma

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. As Americans, all of us have lost someone to war.

If not personally, collectively.






All we are asking is ...............give peace a chance.

[malokvale77]

17. Yes...

Uncle captured at the Guantlet in North Korea, died soon after in POW camp.
Brother, not in Nam but later from complications of agent orange.
Many dear friends in Vietnam.

I'm worried for my Grandson right now. He's on the Ike and will likely be involved in Iran or Syria.

[SammyWinstonJack]

18. ....

[malokvale77]

19. Thanks I needed that

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[SammyWinstonJack]

21. My granddaughter's husband is in Afghanistan and she recently gave birth to my great granddaughter.

He left six weeks after his baby girl was born. She will be almost a year old before he is home.



My granddaughter is also in the Army.

So I know your fears.

[malokvale77]

24. This constant push to war by our congress...

Just makes me so weary at times.

[Omaha Steve]

22. Liesl is an MP in Turkey

No idea if she will be going to a hot spot.

[malokvale77]

26. See #24 above.

[femmocrat]

20. Uncle, WW II.

He is buried in the Philippines.

My cousin came back from VN, but subsequently committed suicide.

[Tikki]

23. Uncle Clayton died in Korea.....

Tikki

[Blue_In_AK]

25. My cousin died in Vietnam.

[redwitch]

27. My uncle was a navy pilot WW2

Shot down over Guadalcanal. Friendly fire.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. A great x 3 uncle was shot by a sniper during the Civil War.

I am fortunate in that I haven't lost any close relatives in any recent wars.

[broiles]

29. Brother,Korea. I'm so anti-war.

[OnionPatch]

30. My uncle died in Vietnam

It was 1966 and I was in second grade. He lived next door to us and was almost like a brother to my siblings and me. He only had a few weeks to go when he stepped on a landmine.

[longship]

31. My cousin died in WWII in the submarine Kete.

In Japanese waters. Nobody knows how the Kete was lost. It may have been a mine.

Carl Brooks, RIP.

[ornotna]

32. My wife

Had a great uncle who died in Elmira during the Civil War. My great grandfather fought on the Union side, collected a Civil War pension and lived to the ripe old age of 95.

[Brother Buzz]

33. Cousin WWll

He was a newly minted Ensign serving on the USS Meredith. He survived the sinking, not the sharks.

[polly7]

34. I lost two great uncles in WW1 and

another uncle in WW2. One of those in the first world war lied about his age to join up and was there a total of three days before they were taken captive, he died in a German prisoner of war camp.

[meow2u3]

35. My uncle Peter died in WWII

He was captured by the Nazis, who turned around and murdered him, along with his fellow POWs.

[dixiegrrrrl]

36. Yeah, a husband and a brother.

They came back from Nam physically, never the same emotionally.
It cost them a lot.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

37. My dad lost a part of himself in Vietnam

Don't know if that counts but he still harbors problems related to PTSD that were never resolved. Flashes of anger, on again off again alcoholism (not bad but still there). I often wonder what type of man he'd be today were it not for that horrid war, whether we would have a better relationship.

[Victor_c3]

38. Not any family members

It's not my goal to steal the show here, but as a platoon leader in Iraq I lost 5 of the guys that served directly under me when I lost a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. All said, in an 18 month period, 7 guys that I knew on a very personal level died in war. I knew many others, but they were mostly casual acquaintances. 9 Guys in my company were killed and 16 guys in my battalion were killed in my 13 month deployment.

I doubt it was just me, but anytime I run into someone or talk to someone that I served with I find out that someone else that I knew was killed. "Hey, I haven't talked to you in so long! How are things going? Did you hear about so and so? No? Well, they died...". I don't know how many people and casual acquaintances I've heard about that way.

What a waste.