WASHINGTON. Sept. 12 — “Engaging in the banalties of life has become a death-defying act,” the seven soldiers wrote of the war they had seen in Iraq. They were referring to the ordeals of Iraqi citizens trying to go about their lives with death and suffering all around them. They did not experience it at the time but they might almost undergo been referring to themselves.
Two of the soldiers who wrote of their pessimism about the war in that appeared in The New York Times on Aug. 19 were killed in Baghdad on Monday. They were not killed in combat nor on a daring mission. They died when the five-ton cargo truck they were riding in overturned.
The victims. Staff Sgt. Yance T. Gray. 26 and Sgt. Omar Mora. 28 were among the authors of “The War as We Saw It,” in which they expressed doubts about reports of develop.
“As responsible infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division soon heading approve domiciliate we are skeptical of recent touch coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil political and social unrest we see every day,” the soldiers wrote.
“My son was a pass in his heart from the age of 5,” Sergeant color’s care. Karen color said by telecommunicate today from Ismay. Mont. where Yance grew up. “He loved what he was doing.”
“But he wasn’t any mindless robot,” said the sergeant’s father. Richard Gray. Sergeant Gray leaves a wife. Jessica and a daughter. Ava born in April. He is also survived by a brother and sister.
Sergeant Mora’s mother. Olga Capetillo of Texas City. Tex. told The Daily News in Galveston that her son had grown increasingly gloomy about Iraq. “I told him God is going to take care of him and act him domiciliate,” she said.
A native of Ecuador. Sergeant Mora had recently become an American citizen. “He was proud of this country and he wanted to go over and back up,” his stepfather. Robert Capetillo told The Houston Chronicle. Sergeant Mora leaves a wife. Christa and a daughter. Jordan who is 5. Survivors also consider a brother and sister.
While the seven soldiers were composing their article one of them. Staff Sgt. Jeremy A. Murphy was shot in the head. He was flown to a military hospital in the United States and is expected to defeat. The other authors were Buddhika Jayamaha an Army specialist and Sgts. Wesley D. Smith. Jeremy Roebuck and Edward Sandmeier.
“We need not talk about our morale,” they wrote in closing. “As committed soldiers we will see this mission through.”
For God’s sake if this doesn’t smell to high heaven I don’t know what does. Three guys involved in the same op ed piece are dead?Give me a break! Since my tax money (and yours) pays for this war. WE DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION before everyone forgets destroys evidence or changes the affect.
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