Fallen Connecticut soldier laid to rest

[NightTrain]

by Mark D. Simpson
Journal Inquirer

National Guard Spc. Robert W. Hoyt of Ashford, who gave all for his country when he died this month in Iraq, was mourned, honored, and laid to rest Tuesday.

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Hoyt, a member of the National Guard's C Company, 1st Battalion 102nd Infantry, died Dec. 11 in Baghdad when a planted bomb exploded near his Humvee.

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Hoyt was a graduate of E.O. Smith High School, where he played football and ran track. He enlisted in the National Guard in 2002.

He is survived by his parents, two sisters, and brother.



Father's farewell

Tom Hoyt, father of Spc. Robert W. Hoyt of the Army National Guard, pauses at his son's casket Tuesday in the cemetery in Mansfield.

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Though I never knew Robert Hoyt or anyone in his family, we had something in common. I, too, grew up in Mansfield, CT, and attended E.O. Smith High School. As a result, I finally feel that the Iraq war has hit me quite literally where I live. For that, I'd just like to say....

GODDAMN YOUR SOUL TO HELL, MR. BUSH!!! :mad::nuke:

[redsoxliberal]

1. yeah... that's about right.

[NightTrain]

4. I'll bet when that kid joined the National Guard, he figured...

...it would be just one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer. At worst, he might have to lay sandbags on a riverbank to stave off flood waters, or perhaps clean up the debris left behind by a hurricane or a tornado.

I'll bet that when Robert Hoyt enlisted, it never once entered his mind that he'd be plopped down in a god-forsaken desert thousands of miles from home to fight in an illegal, immoral, unnecessary war.

Would anyone mind if I repeated myself? No? Good....

GODDAMN YOUR SOUL TO HELL, MR. BUSH!!! :mad::nuke:

[Spinzonner]

2. It's hard to imagine a Hell that wouldn't be too good for him

[hickman1937]

3. Oh, sweet Jesus, it just goes on and on.

Where is the reason. How do we justify this to our grandchildren? How do we explain Diebolt, Pope JerryPat, and oil wars? Mine are yet to be born, thank God, because I have nothing.

[BensMom]

5. What to do?

My prayers go out for them all.

I do not know what it will take. Maybe if families of the fallen would speak out it would make a difference.


Do you think the families are angry?
I would be mad as hell.

[Zuni]

6. May God bless him

and his family.

May he Rest In Peace.

[Before_Dawn]

7. A prayer

God Rest his soul. Amen.

[hickman1937]

8. My mind refuses to encompass this

the man is looking at the box that holds the body of the boy he diapered, yelled at, laughed at, and with, hugged, hoped for, got so pissed at that he wanted to strangle him, was proud of, and thought would bury him. This hurts too much. I'm going to bed.