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1st Lt. Kevin J. Gaspers
Hastings, NE
82nd Airborne
FT. Bragg, NC
KIA: 4/23/2007 ~ As Sadah, Iraq
Spc. Jonn J. Edmunds
Cheyenne, WY
Edmunds died when the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter he was aboard crashed while on a search-and-rescue mission.
10/19/2001 ~ Pakistan
Company B, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment
Fort Benning, GA
KIA 6/25/03
Baghdad, Iraq
KIA 2/9/07
Northern Iraq
KIA 10/29/05
Anbar province, Iraq
KIA 8/4/05
Jalalabad, Iraq
"The Mansions of the Lord"
Words by Randall Wallace
To fallen soldiers let us sing
where no rockets fly nor bullets wing
Our broken brothers let us bring
to the mansions of the Lord
No more bleeding no more fight
No prayers pleading through the night
just divine embrace, eternal light
in the mansions of the Lord
Where no mothers cry and no children weep
We will stand and guard tho the angels sleep
All through the ages safely keep the mansions of the Lord
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Lay me down in the cold cold ground
Where before many more have gone
Once a year say a prayer for me
Close your eyes and remember me
KIA 10/7/07
Mosul, Iraq
KIA 11/16/07
Balad, Iraq
The young dead soldiers do not speak
Nevertheless, they are heard in the still houses:
Who has not heard them?
They have a silence that speaks for them at night
And when the clock counts.
They say: We were young. We have died.
Remember us.
They say: We have done what we could
But until it is finished it is not done.
They say: We have given our lives,
but until it is finished...
NO ONE can know what our lives gave.
They say: Our deaths are not ours: they are yours,
They will mean what you make them.
They say: Whether our lives and our deaths
were for Peace and a new hope
or for nothing we cannot say,
It is you who must say this.
We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.
We were young, they say...
We have died;
Remember us.
by Archibald MacLeish,
1892-1982, American Poet
KIA 2/18/07
Southeastern Afghanistan
A PAIN, NO ONE CAN HEAL...
A MEMORY NO ONE CAN STEAL...
A SOLDIER'S DEATH GIVES MORE YET...
IT LEAVES BEHIND A LESSON TO IMMITATE...
A LESSON, NO ONE SHOULD EVER FORGET.
KIA 8/4/05
Jalalabad, Iraq
KIA 2/18/07
Southeastern Afghanistan
http://www.neverforgetourfallen.com/
Rippetoe was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
The first soldier from the Iraqi conflict,
to be buried on the historic grounds.
KIA 6/28/03
Baghdad, Iraq
KIA, January 6, 2009
Northern Iraq
Staff Sgt. Paul A. Sweeney
Lakeville, PA
Unit ambushed while on patrol
near Musa, Afghanistan
10/30/03
Honorary Member NYFD
Engine Co/167, Ladder Co/87
Cpl. Ryan C. McGhee, 21, of Fredericksburg, Va.,
died May 13, 2009 from wounds suffered when
his unit came in contact with enemy forces
while conducting combat operations in Central Iraq.
