Thursday, January 24, 2008
3931
Just in Case You've Forgotten. There isn't really anything too special about the following name, just that the poor guy happens to be the 3931 death in Iraq. I picked him since he's the latest death when I looked at an Iraqi Casualties web site.
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Michael R. Sturdivant, 20, of Conway, Ark., died Jan. 22 in Kirkuk, Iraq, of injuries sustained in a vehicle accident during convoy operations. He was assigned to the 431st Civil Affairs Battalion, U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C.It'd be nice if there was someway to really aknowledge what he gave up. Dying in some anonymous attack thousands of miles from home isn't the best way to go. But you know what? People killing people happens anyplace anytime, all the time. Last month some 14 month old kid was killed in a driveby shooting in our less-than-fair city. The kids doing the shooting were driving a civilian Hummer. I suppose there's some kind of subtle irony there someplace. Stacy, the fourteen month old, was sitting in a child protection seat in his mom's car when 5 men (these animals shouldn't be dignified by the term men, by the way) fired ten shots into the car. On a related note, the police chief of the Tittabawassee Township police force just resigned because there wasn't enough crime happening in that township - he's going back to become a beat cop in the area where the 14 month old was murdered. Good luck to him. I hope he has a chance to stop another kid from getting shot.
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