Pvt. Rey David Cuervo

[underpants]

Army Pvt. Rey David Cuervo, 24, is shown in this undated family photo. Cuervo, was killed Sunday, Dec. 28, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), when an explosive device hit his mounted patrol. Cuervo was assigned to 1st Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment based in Fort Polk, La. His parents Tom and Rosalba Kuhn who live in Laguna Vista, Texas. (AP Photo/Joe Hermosa)

[demnan]

1. Thanks

Every "death in Iraq" should have a face.

[underpants]

2. .

I did this once before and will again if pictures are on Yahoo. Sad he's just a kid.

[baldguy]

9. They are all kids.

[nostamj]

5. you will find most of those faces here...

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

in alphabetical order. sad sad sad.

[underpants]

6. Wow

YEs it is sad.

[baggypants]

3. God bless him and his family

[underpants]

4. Indeed

:grouphug:

[roguevalley]

7. they're all babies. they're all just babies. Some day a family member

will ask an old person who that face is in the faded
photograph and they will say that was my brother.

[RamboLiberal]

8. And then there are the wounded

I posted this story over in Editorials - but worth putting here as well. Read this one - this poor kid is extremely bitter at what happened to him. He's a local kid about 50 miles from where I live so I had read about him several times. And the story of the female soldier - haunting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/30/national/30SOLD.html

Jeremy Feldbusch joined the Army to travel the world. Now the only place he can go by himself is the 40 steps from his bed to the reclining chair in the living room.

The stucco walls guide him, past the bathroom, kitchen and closet, past the photographs of him in football jacket and wrestling singlet, past the coffee table, where he sometimes stubs his toe. At last, he finds his chair.

<snip>

Sgt. Jeremy Feldbusch, a fit, driven, highly capable Army Ranger, left home in February knowing the risks of combat. Two months later, he came home blind.

<snip>

During the two months Jeremy Feldbusch spent recovering at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, his parents lived at his bedside. Charlene Feldbusch remembers one day seeing a young female soldier crawling past her in the corridor with no legs and her 3-year-old son trailing behind.