Devoted sister loses 2 brothers to war

[rodeodance]

Devoted sister loses 2 brothers to war

By ANGIE WAGNER, AP National Writer 12 minutes ago

LUBBOCK, Texas

-http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061118/ap_on_re_us/a_sister_s_grief

...........They spent afternoons playing hide-and-seek and Army in a West Texas cotton field. They were inseparable: Monica, Freddy and Andrew.

Monica, now 27, still remembers the three of them dancing on the bed. She laughs when she recalls the day Freddy flipped a three-wheeler on top of his brother. Before tending to him, he came inside to eat a tortilla.

How was it possible that she could lose them both?

They were her baby brothers, the boys she adored...........

.........On July 25, inside an office building in Sharona, Afghanistan, 22-year-old Andrew slipped the muzzle of a M-249 Squad Automatic Weapon into his mouth. He pulled the trigger.

His death is under investigation. ..........


The brothers followed each other into the Army. Freddy first, then Andrew.

They came home that way, too. Freddy, then Andrew.

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[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. Another Texan . . .

. . . thinks those boys are just commas in history books.

[patrice]

3. What's the matter with you? Don't you believe in "the Greater Good"?

[MikeNearMcChord]

2. There was a woman from Great Britain in World War I

Named Vera Brittain, who wrote of her experiences of losing her brother and her fiance. Through her memoir, Testament Of Youth, she became a pacifist. This story reminds me of that.

[Eurobabe]

4. Another sad story, while Bush still roams the planet

The Hague is too good for him.

[hlthe2b]

5. Ohh, that was wrenching... don't forget to rate it up on Yahoo, too

We need many many felow "Amerikuns" to read this! :cry:

[phusion]

6. god what a story...

"Sometimes Monica lies down between her brothers and waits for that feeling to come, when she knows they are with her. For so many years she had guided them, helped and comforted them, made sure they never felt abandoned."

:(

There are so many stories like this... :mad:

[Nostradammit]

7. God help us

"The things that I've done, I'm not the same," he told his sister. "At first, you're scared to do it, to kill somebody and then you just do it. And then you start noticing you enjoy it. And you try to find as many as you can and kill as many as you can. Then you come home and see your kids and you think — how could I do that?"



How indeed.


Nobody wins a war.

[jaxx]

8. What a heartbreaking story.

It's like watching the essence of America passing by.

[stellanoir]

9. this has to stop

[Jokinomx]

10. WAR WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?

I blame our pResident again for two more unnecessary causalities of war. The guy who couldn't even finish the National Guard duty he has volunteered to keep himself out of Vietnam.

A sad sad commentary on what our country has become...