Newsweek: "With the Heaviest of Hearts" (This Monday's edition)

[snowbear]

They bunked together off base in Anchorage, more like grad students than grunts. One by one, the war claimed their lives. The letters the soldiers left behind.



Web exclusive
By Dan Ephron
Newsweek

March 24, 2007 - Of the dozens of e-mails Army Sgt. Sean Fennerty wrote home during his three months in Iraq, the most wrenching dispatch reached his parents on Dec 12, 2006. "I write this with the heaviest of hearts," Fennerty typed into a military computer at his base in Baghdad, after attending a memorial service for two members of his airborne brigade killed in a roadside bombing. "They were two of my best friends and that was the squad I moved to, and then moved back from," he wrote.

Continued ~ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17761988/site/newsweek/

[snowbear]

1. Alaska's Fallen Soldiers

This is also kept up-to-date at the ADN's homepage-

Here is a tribute to the soldiers from or stationed in Alaska who died at war. They are presented chronologically.

Leave your thoughts and memories with each individual profile, or to the Alaska soldier tribute forum, and send your pictures of Alaska's fallen soldiers to [e-mail] and help create a tribute to their lives.


Iraq


Homefront, Anchorage


Date of death: Rank, Name


2007-03-16: Sgt. 1st Class Christopher R. Brevard

2007-03-11: Sgt. Daniel E. Woodcock

2007-02-19: Pfc. Adare W. Cleveland

2007-02-11: Sgt. Russell A. Kurtz

2007-01-22: Staff Sgt. Jamie D. Wilson

2007-01-20: Spc. Jeffrey D. Bisson

2007-01-20: Spc. Toby R. Olsen

2007-01-20: 1st Lt. Jacob N. Fritz

2007-01-20: Pfc. Shawn Patrick Falter

2007-01-20: Sgt. Phillip D. McNeill

2007-01-20: Pfc. Johnathon M. Millican

2007-01-20: Sgt. Sean Patrick Fennerty

2007-01-20: Sgt. Johnathan Bryan Chism

2007-01-15: Cpl. Jason J. Corbett

2007-01-05: Cpl. Jeremiah J. Johnson

2007-01-04: Staff Sgt. Charles D. Allen

2006-12-31: Pfc. Alan R. Blohm

2006-12-28: Spc. Dustin R. Donica

2006-12-26: Spc. Douglas L. Tinsley

2006-12-26: Spc. Joseph A. Strong

2006-12-20: Staff Sgt. Jacob McMillan

2006-12-20: Sgt. Scott Dykman

2006-12-10: Pfc. Shawn M. Murphy

2006-12-10: Sgt. Brennan C. Gibson

2006-12-10: Spc. Philip C. Ford

2006-12-07: Staff Sgt. Henry Linck

2006-12-07: Spc. Micah Gifford

2006-11-04: Spc. James L. Bridges

2006-11-02: Cpl. Michael H. Lasky

2006-10-30: Sgt. Kraig Foyteck

2006-10-11: Sgt. Nicholas Sowinski

2006-10-03: Sgt. Jonathan Rojas

2006-09-17: Sgt. David J. Davis

2006-09-10: Spc. Alexander Jordan

2006-09-02: Staff Sgt. Eugene H.E. Alex

2006-08-21: Master Sgt. Brad A. Clemmons

2006-08-09: Spc. Shane Woods

2006-07-12: Sgt. Irving Hernandez

2006-06-29: Sgt. Bryan C. Luckey

2006-06-07: 2Lt. John Shaw Vaughan

2006-05-31: Sgt. Benjamin Mejia

2006-05-29: Spc. Jeremy Loveless

2006-05-09: Spc. Aaron P. Latimer

2006-04-27: Staff Sgt. Mark Wall

2006-04-25: Pfc. Raymond Henry

2006-04-11: Cpl. Kenneth D. Hess

2006-04-09: Spc. Joseph I. Love-Fowler

2006-04-08: Spc. Shawn Creighton

2006-04-06: Spc. Dustin James Harris

2006-02-26: Spc. Joshua M. Pearce

2006-02-06: Spc. Patrick W. Herried

2006-02-05: Spc. Jeremiah J.Boehmer

2006-02-05: Staff Sgt. Christopher R. Morningstar

2006-01-22: Staff Sgt. Brian McElroy

2006-01-22: Tech. Sgt. Jason L. Norton

2006-01-07: 1st Lt. Jaime Lynn Campbell

2006-01-07: Spc. Michael Ignatius Edwards

2006-01-07: Spc. Jacob Eugene Melson

2006-01-07: Chief Warrant Officer Chester William Troxel

2005-11-19: Pvt. Christopher Alcozer

2005-11-11: Staff Sgt. Stephen Sutherland

2005-10-19: Spc. Daniel D. Bartels

2005-10-18: Spc. Lucas Frantz

2005-10-02: Staff Sgt. Timothy J. Roark

2005-09-11: Sgt. Kurtis Dean Kama-O-Apelila Arcala

2005-09-05: Sgt. Matthew Charles Bohling

2005-08-16: Lance Cpl. Grant Fraser

2005-04-04: Lance Cpl. Jeremiah Kinchen

2004-08-29: A1C Carl Anderson Jr.

2003-04-07: Capt. Eric Das

2003-07-17: Sgt. Mason Douglas Whetstone

[Ken Burch]

2. Too....many.....way too many...

As Robert Kennedy asked, speaking of those who had died in Vietnam:

"...Which of them might have written a poem? Which of them might have cured cancer? Which of them might have played in a World Series or given us the gift of laughter from the stage or helped build a bridge or a university? Which of them would have taught a child to read? It is our responsibility to let these men live....It is indecent if they die because of the empty vanity of their country."


Damn you, Dubya. This state gave you its electoral votes twice and, in repayment, you send its sons and daughters off to die?

rot in hell, you draft-dodging murderer.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. I couldn't agree with you more, Ken

[northofdenali]

4. ....

:cry::cry::cry::cry:

my local Strykers are very, very scared of being redeployed; their equipment isn't ready, won't be for about a year...........

but that won't stop the asshole who lives in Al Gore's White House.

The adn site is really great; surprises me that ANY Alaska newspaper carries this type of tribute.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. The Daily News tends to go left

IMO. Why else would Don Young call it the Anchorage Daily Worker? :rofl:

[northofdenali]

6. AMEN, girlfriend -

You, me, my fellow Alaskan DU'ers, and the Alaska Ear, who calls that asshole "Congressman for All Alaska except the Ear and a few others".

:rofl::P:rofl:

[northofdenali]

7. Still crying.

Did this from here in Fairbanks during Viet Nam. Doing it again. Shit!!! WHEN WILL WE LEARN???
:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[jon4paz]

8. Impeachment Summer Begins This Spring! 4/28

http://www.a28.org/

George Bush and Dick Cheney have lied the nation into a war of aggression, are spying in open violation of the law, and have sanctioned the use of torture. These are high crimes and misdemeanors that demand accountability. Since Congress doesn't seem to get it, on April 28 Americans from Miami, Florida to North Pole, Alaska are going to spell it out for them: IMPEACH! It's time to say NO to impunity for lying, spying, and torture.

The theme of the day is spell it out, and we're going to put the word IMPEACH! everywhere on April 28. If you're in Miami you can join the Unwelcoming Party for George Bush, who will speaking at Miami Dade College that day. If you're in San Diego you can tell Nancy Pelosi to put impeachment back on the table. And there are more than 100 hundred other actions planned around the country!

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Hi, Jon!

How nice to see you here. This is Linda whose photos of the September 2005 DC peace march you used at that little gathering over at the University a while back. I've been enjoying your e-mails from Peace & Justice. Keep up the good work. :)