| Uneffingbelievable!!! And I just can't blame Reps only with the caving ot the congress not standing firm on their timeline to get the troops out...but I just heard on Keith Olberman's Countdown that our local area military base, Fort Lewis, has decided that the numbers of our troops now dying are too high to have individual services, instead, starting June, they will, instead, have group monthly service [including 3 more today via a car bomb at a police station]!!!
Tacoma, WA - Thursday, May 31, 2007
Fort Lewis Moves to Monthly Memorial
Switch Reflects Reality, Says Top Post Chaplain
MICHAEL GILBERT; The News Tribune
Last updated: May 30th, 2007 01:21 AM (PDT)
"Fort Lewis, which this month has suffered its worst losses of the war, will no longer conduct individual memorial ceremonies for soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead the post will hold one ceremony for all soldiers killed each month, the Fort Lewis acting commanding general, Brig. Gen. William Troy, wrote in a memo to commanders and staff last week. “As much as we would like to think otherwise, I am afraid that with the number of soldiers we now have in harm’s way, our losses will preclude us from continuing to do individual memorial ceremonies,” Troy wrote in the memo, according to a copy obtained by United for Peace Pierce County and posted on the group’s Web site. A post spokesman confirmed the policy change Tuesday. It will start in June. There are some 10,000 Fort Lewis troops in Iraq, more than at any other time since the March 2003 invasion. The post has reported 16 soldiers killed there so far in May, by far the most in any month of the war. The previous worst month was December 2004, when nine soldiers were killed, including six in the Mosul chow hall bombing. In all overseas deployments since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, 124 Fort Lewis soldiers have died."
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Peace
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