Posted on 12/22/2015 11:10:46 AM PST by windcliff
A female officer in the Air Force who was one of the first openly gay service members to marry was identified on Tuesday as among the six U.S. troops killed by a suicide bomber near Bagram air base in Afghanistan.
Facebook postings on Tuesday by friends and family of Air Force Major Adrianna Vorderbruggen mourned her death on Monday and sent condolences to her wife Heather and son Jacob, who live near Washington, D.C.
"We do find comfort in knowing that Heather and Jacob are no longer in the shadows and will be extended the rights and protections due any American military family as they move through this incredibly difficult period in their lives," said the posting from Military Partners and Families Coalition.
Six American troops, including Vorderbruggen, were killed Monday when a suicide bomber on a motorbike struck their patrol in the deadliest attack on U.S. forces this year.
Bagram, around 40 km (25 miles) north of Kabul, is one of the main bases for the 9,800 U.S. troops left in Afghanistan after international troops ended combat operations last year.
The victims included New York City Detective Joseph Lemm, a 15-year veteran of the NYPD who also volunteered in the U.S. Air National Guard and was on his third deployment to war zones.
"Detective Joseph Lemm epitomized the selflessness we can only strive for: putting his country and city first," New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said in a statement.
Mayor Bill de Blasio sent his condolences to Lemm's wife and two children, saying in a statement they were among so many American families this holiday season "who have an empty chair at the dinner table because one of their loved ones went off to defend our country and never came back."
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Bronze statues to be erected at every airbase.
She was that important that the other people killed are just relegated to a footnote? Because she diddles other women?
Her wife?
Such is today’s PC armed forces.
Sad.
Rest in Peace
Jacob must be from a previous relationship with a male.
When making the ultimate sacrifice, nothing else matters.
She has a son? Is she the mother or father. Who wielded the turkey baster. This country needs an enema.
...or a turkey baster.
I guess the homosexual supremacists are supremacists even when dead.
Some are more equal than others. I’d be willing to bet that some of the other five did far more than she did, but suffered from a deplorable lack of potential victimhood status claims... but we will likely never hear much about them.
I’m grateful to all who serve honorably.
The is article needs a better headline writer though. ‘Groundbreaking Lesbian’ makes me think of Rosie O’Donnell.
soebarkah’s enemy islamism, running according to plan.
God receive the souls of our murdered forces.
Was she the target to the fundamental Mooslip?
Merry Christmas
News flash, Barbara — the lesbian isn’t any more important than any of the other soldiers who died in the service of their country in Afghanistan.
How do two lesbians have a son?
Why is the Air Force patrolling around Bagram? And why is an Air Force Major on that patrol? Not getting this. God bless them all though.
RIP Hero :0(
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