Here's what happened. Please read the following spoken into dragon while working this morning about 30minutes ago. I haven't cleaned it up . Notice the first word.
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Lucas members of the military are still dying in Iraq, even as the US is drawing down its presence there. 24 have been killed in Iraq so far this year. In Afghanistan the US death toll this year has topped 150.
One of those was staff Sgt. Edward Mills Junior. He was 29 years old and one of six soldiers who died last Thursday in Kandahar province by an improvised explosive device.
Sgt. Mills was from New Castle, Pennsylvania, where his younger brother remembered him as a natural born leader."Now, when I first start a new document, it takes a few moments for the words to start appearing on the monitor. By the time I spoke "his younger brother remembered him as a natural born leader," it started typing and the first word was "Lucas" before it started with what I actually spoke - "Members..."
I was wondering, after yesterday and the happenings of the past month, who is Lucas. So I went to search who this fallen soldier is and found this: "
In addition to his uncle, Mills is survived by his mother, Kathie L. Greenawalt; father, Edward Mills; stepfather, Jeff Greenawalt; brothers Jarod Mills and Lucas Greenawalt; and stepsister Tiffany Cast. Funeral arrangements are pending.http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/obituaries/news/s_739558.htmlLuckily, my husband arrived a few minutes after and talked me down. Well, I've got to get back to work.
on edit: We have vets in the family and my late FIL was a great Marine who braved 3 wars including a tour in Vietnam he didn't have to endure in order to spare one of his sons of duty, so I have to admit the story itself before I started to work on it saddened me. I have no connection to this family and I don't even know a Lucas.