http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/fallen/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:40:55 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419196/posts Press Release 20100101-01 January 1, 2010 BAGHDAD – December passed without any servicemembers being killed in action. This was the first month in the history of Operation Iraqi Freedom without any U.S. military being killed in combat. Three USF-I troops did die from non-combat related incidents. “We enter the new year with mixed emotions. While we are thankful that no troops were killed in action in December, we are equally mindful of those who have lost their lives while serving our nation. Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families, and all that have lost a loved one in... U.S. Forces Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419196/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:40:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418831/posts The bombing, just as President Barack Obama's surge is gathering pace, represented the biggest loss of life suffered by the US intelligence agency since an attack in Beirut in 1983. The CIA said on Thursday a further six agents had been injured in the attack. Claiming credit for the attack, a Taliban spokesman said the bomber was "an Afghan national army officer wearing a suicide vest". UK Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418831/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 06:05:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418630/posts To honor our brave men and women in the military, we list below the names of the fallen. This post identifies these wonderful souls by name, listing the heroes who sacrificed everything for you and I. This is the list author and Conservative American talk radio star Mark Levin spoke of and listed on his website. They gave their lives to protect and preserve our freedom. We thank them, we remember them and we honor them. Unlike other lists you may see, our list includes deaths from both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as well as other military deaths (including... Conservative American org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418630/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:21:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418494/posts AP Sources: CIA Base Chief Killed In Attack By PAMELA HESS and ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON – The CIA said Thursday that seven of its employees were killed and six others wounded in a suicide bombing at a base in Afghanistan. The Associated Press has learned that one of them was the chief of the CIA's post in Afghanistan's southeastern Khost Province. CIA Director Leon Panetta said in a message to agency staff that the casualties sustained in Wednesday's strike at Forward Operating Base Chapman were the result of a terrorist attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing.... AP Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418494/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:26:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418466/posts Number of U.S. Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan Doubles In 2009 The year's tally was 319, compared with 155 in 2008, due mostly to the crude but ever larger and deadlier roadside bombs built by the Taliban. Related By Laura King December 31, 2009 Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - American military fatalities in Afghanistan doubled in 2009 compared with the previous year, and U.S. officials and analysts acknowledge that the new year is likely to prove even more lethal. The planned U.S. troop buildup, coupled with ever-deadlier tactics adopted by the Taliban and other insurgent groups, is expected to result in... LATimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418466/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:43:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418358/posts From my Facebook Inbox: The end of a decade is here... it is a time to welcome the new one... but just for a second, before the decade is over, stop an watch this video and remember just one more time before you sing Auld Lang Syne...read more... Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418358/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:32:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418288/posts A suicide bomber penetrated a foreign army base in Afghanistan to kill eight U.S. CIA employees on Wednesday, one of the spy agency's largest death tolls, and a separate attack killed four Canadian troops and a journalist. WTAM Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418288/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:35:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417835/posts US Citizens Killed In Afghanistan Eight Americans have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in south-eastern Afghanistan, US officials say. The suicide bomber was wearing an explosive vest as he carried out the attack at a forward operating base in Khost province, CNN reported. Details about the attack are still emerging and it was not clear how many people had been injured. One unnamed US official was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying that all of those killed were civilians. BBCNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417835/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:42:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414395/posts Canadian soldier killed by improvised explosive device CEFCOM NR 09.032 - December 23, 2009 OTTAWA — One Canadian soldier and one soldier of the Afghan National Army (ANA) were killed by an improvised explosive device that detonated during a joint foot patrol near the village of Nakhonay in Panjwaii District, about 25 km southwest of Kandahar City, on December 23, 2009. The explosion also injured an Afghan interpreter. Killed in action was Lieutenant Andrew Richard Nuttall, from the 1st Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (1 PPCLI), based in Edmonton, Alberta, serving as a member of the 1 PPCLI Battle... DND/Canadian Forces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414395/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:47:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413811/posts After 59 years, Army Master Sgt. Silas W. Wilson is coming home tonight, and the fact he will be in a flag-draped casket does not diminish the feeling of anticipation and closure in the heart of a daughter who never knew him. "When I was a child, from the time I had any memory at all, I knew what had hap­pened," Marie Wilson Cleghorn said Tues­day night. "And for 59 years, I've prayed ev­ery day that my daddy would come home one way or another. "It's 22 years too late for my mother to be this happy, and it's eight... The Birmingham News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413811/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:47:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406396/posts WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2009 – The Arlington Wreath Project, an unofficial national tradition, prompted about 6,000 volunteers to wake up extra early this morning to help place 16,000 wreaths on graves at Arlington National Cemetery. "It's really nice that America still remembers our troops," said Nikki Bunting, the widow of Army Capt. Brian Bunting, who died in Afghanistan in February 2009. She visited her husband's grave with their children, 2-year-old Connor and 5-week-old Cooper. “It's a sad sight, but it's really beautiful. It reminds us that people care,” she said. Morrill Worcester, president of Maine-based Worcester Wreath Company, started the... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406396/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:20:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406348/posts Pfc. De'Angello Robinson, 19, traveled seven hours by bus to place a single wreath on the tomb of a soldier whom he'd never met. For him, and the other Marines who took the trip from Camp Johnson in Jacksonville, N.C. to Arlington National Cemetery to decorate graves, the day was about paying tribute to men and women who once stood in their shoes. "In a few months, from where we are getting shipped out, this could be us," said Robinson of the fallen soldiers. "If it is us, I would want somebody to do the same for me so I'm... WP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406348/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:33:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403223/posts Just had to say so. Wow!! Its on every channel up here in Everett,WA. WOW! Seattle times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403223/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 22:55:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403078/posts Thousands participated Tuesday in a procession to the memorial for four murdered Washington state police officers, which about 20,000 mourners were expected to attend.Pierce County officials said 2,000 police and fire vehicles from more than 150 agencies joined the procession to the Tacoma Dome service for the victims of a coffee shop shooting.===Watch live on Fox=== Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403078/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 19:41:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402093/posts Below is a list of all of all those who perished as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. You may also use the letters above to narrow the list to last names starting with a specific letter. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402093/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:52:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402209/posts MAPLEWOOD, Minn. - Arrangements have been made for a traditional, three-day Hmong funeral for Pfc. Kham Xiong of St. Paul who was among 13 people killed in the Fort Hood Army Base shootings. The funeral service for Xiong will start at Legacy Funeral Home's Maplewood chapel starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 28. The service will run through the afternoon of Monday, Nov. 30. Xiong will then be buried with military honors at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. "Pfc. Kham Xiong came to America from Thailand as a small child," President Barack Obama said during a memorial service at Fort... www.myfoxtwincities.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402209/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 19:04:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2400308/posts Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan - Capt. Matt Foley hasn't presided over any weddings or christenings since he arrived here in April - not much call for those services in a war zone. But the Army chaplain and Catholic priest who spent much of his childhood in Wauwatosa stays very busy ministering to nine companies in the 82nd Airborne Divisional Special Troops Battalion, delivering care packages, checking on soldiers' welfare, presiding over Catholic Masses as well as handling any calls for a priest. And like all military chaplains, he cares for all service members regardless of their religion. His job is very... Milwaukee Journal Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2400308/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:13:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397210/posts WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2009 – The remains of a U.S. paratrooper reported missing since early this month in western Afghanistan were recovered yesterday, military officials said. The body of Army Sgt. Brandon Islip was recovered from the Bala Murgahab River in Badghis province after a local Afghan resident provided information on his whereabouts, officials said. Islip, a paratrooper with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, went missing with another paratrooper Nov. 4 after being swept away by a fast-moving current while on an airdrop re-supply mission in western Afghanistan. The recovery comes weeks after British divers found the body of Islip’s... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397210/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:36:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393557/posts We've all seen reports that Barack Obama's job approval rating has recently fallen below 50 percent in the Gallup poll for the first time since the president took office in January. A look inside those numbers -- Gallup publishes a weekly breakdown of its results by demographic groups -- shows that there are a lot of other firsts in the polling: Among age groups: For the first time in the White House, Obama is below 50 percent with every age group of Americans except those between 18 and 29. He's at 48 percent with people in the 30-49 range; 46... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393557/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:19:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391766/posts In a final call home, Army Sgt. Benjamin Sherman told his sister to tell everyone he loved them, “because I don’t know if I’ll get that chance again.” Sadly, his fears proved true. Sherman was laid to rest yesterday in his hometown of Plymouth in a funeral Mass attended by hundreds. Sherman, 21, was eulogized as a selfless soldier who did what came naturally to him when he jumped into a river in Afghanistan to try to rescue a comrade in distress. “He jumped into that river because he loved deeply, he was pure of heart, and he exhibited the... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391766/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:08:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391550/posts Lcpl Shawn P. Hefner, USMCDec 04, 1986 -Nov 13, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVWHcObPpDc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391550/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:22:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388546/posts Capt. John Gaffaney Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, was a psychiatric nurse who worked for San Diego County, Calif., for more than 20 years and had arrived at Fort Hood the day before the shooting to prepare for a deployment to Iraq. Born in Williston, N.D., Gaffney had served in the Navy and later the California National Guard as a younger man, his family said. CBS 48 Hours http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388546/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:59:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2383417/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2383417/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:50:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381251/posts FORT HOOD, Texas – The Army released an official list of the 13 people fatally shot at Fort Hood and said 16 victims were still being treated in hospitals, 9 of them in intensive care units. The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381251/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:51:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381108/posts Breaking News: Military Releases Names of Dead in Fort Hood Shooting Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381108/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:26:24 GMT