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Can the last five-or-so announcements of deaths from Iraq really have all been "non-combat related"?
IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 087-09
February 10, 2009
DoD Identifies Army Casualty
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Spc. Christopher P. Sweet, 28, of Kahului, Hawaii, died Feb. 6 in Kirkush, Iraq, of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, 172d Separate Infantry Brigade, Grafenwoehr, Germany.
The circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation.
For more information media may contact the U.S. Army, Europe, public affairs office at 011-49-6221-57-5816 or 8694, or email: ocpa.pi@eur.army.mil.
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Can the last five-or-so announcements of deaths from Iraq really have all been “non-combat related”?
It would be very sad. However, I know that there are three missing notices, one of which is Iraq(I just checked). I guess that makes six. One of the missing is this one:
http://www.defenselink.mil/rel…..seid=12477
Was that among your count?
I post what they email me. Don’t know why they would email some out and not others.
I remember you’ve said that. I wonder that as well. Weird.
I forgot to mention. You’ve heard of the sharp increase in the number of suicides, right? Might that be part of the reason?
You know, I was talking about that with my mother yesterday but to be totally honest, I haven’t researched it. You may have just unlocked this. Thanks for the suggestion.
Why do you alter the lyric from, ‘Are the beating drums / Celebration guns […]’? I think in so doing you make it slightly inappropriate (though I know this wasn’t your intention): surely the occasion of a serviceman’s death is not one of celebration? (I mean in modern usage.) I’d understand funerary ‘celebration’ perhaps (link sense 4), but that comes later, and even then I think the response of mourning subsumes our celebration (not vice versa), gunsaluted or not. Immediately in public our reaction should be not be celebratory. Wait on the families.