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It's Memorial Day in the US, so I'm watching the historical reenactments at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, then going to visit the Veterans' Cemetery. Do you know anyone killed fighting in a war? List them here, regardless of organization, whether the British Royal Marines, US Coast Guard, or Hezbollah. Here's my list, though there may be more people I lost track of: Iraq -- LCpl Suárez de Solar: stepped on a cluster bomblet in the Diwaniyah Valley during the invasion. This is the only one I saw happen personally, and he took hours to die. He was the first Mexican citizen killed in the war. -- SSgt Molina-Bautista: was in a Light Armored vehicle that got hit by an IED on patrol in Anbar province. -- Lt Wetherbee: killed in Anbar when his Amtrak (amphibious armored vehicle) was hit by an RPG. Weirdly enough, his previous Amtrak had also been destroyed by an RPG while he was out on foot, killing part of his crew. -- Lt Lynch: also killed in Anbar when the Amtrak he was riding in (infantry officer) was hit by an RPG. -- LCpl Chance Phelps: killed in Anbar with a shot to the face when his convoy was ambushed, while manning the best-fed machine gun on top of the Humvee. They no-poo poo made a Kevin Bacon film about transporting his body from Iraq back to Wyoming, called Taking Chance. Afghanistan -- Petty Officers McNeley and Newlove: both abducted by the Taliban and executed in Logar province while out driving in an armored SUV. Both were sailors assigned to a Kabul unit as drivers, and got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and died hundreds of miles from the ocean.
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May 28, 2018 18:33
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rip vilerat
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May 28, 2018 18:34
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Yes. 3 friends.
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May 28, 2018 18:36
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I didn't know him personally but Nick Berg is from my hometown and he really kicked off the era of viral head sawing videos
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May 28, 2018 18:42
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John "Soap" MacTavish
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May 28, 2018 18:45
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Kak posted:John "Soap" MacTavish noice
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May 28, 2018 18:46
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Kak posted:John "Soap" MacTavish 
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May 28, 2018 18:54
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no because they're dead
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May 28, 2018 18:55
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Kak posted:John "Soap" MacTavish F
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May 28, 2018 18:55
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just lol if you are dumb enough to volunteer for any branch of the US military
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May 28, 2018 18:56
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Associate Christ
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I've experienced many casualties in the war on drugs
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May 28, 2018 18:58
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i was school friends with someone who entered the army shortly after HS and was killed in the surge, and i don't remember his name, i can barely remember anyone from those days. if i didn't keep talking after HS they just fell into a blend of occasional news of deaths he was a huge nerd and shouldn't have settled on the loving army. another friend came back immensely hosed up, and won't talk about what happened but that's fine. he starts screaming at the army and cursing its name any chance he gets though
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May 28, 2018 19:01
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basic hitler posted:he was a huge nerd and shouldn't have settled on the loving army. Typically, nerds like the idea of joining the army because many of them don't feel like they fit in anywhere else and it offers the chance to start anew and away from your old social circle, assuming you had one.
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May 28, 2018 19:27
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I don't know anyone killed in war, but if you hum a few bars I can fake it.
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May 28, 2018 19:31
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Father died in the info wars op
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May 28, 2018 19:32
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I obviously didn't "know" them, but three of my great-uncles (? whatever the brothers of my grandma are called) died in WW2. Two were paratroopers, one was confirmed dead and one was MIA and never found, and the other died in France.
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May 28, 2018 19:33
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Amateur Saboteur posted:Father died in the info wars op Rip
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May 28, 2018 19:35
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I've lost many friends to the meme wars.
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May 28, 2018 19:37
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I obviously didn't "know" them, but three of my great-uncles (? whatever the brothers of my grandma are called) died in WW2. Two were paratroopers, one was confirmed dead and one was MIA and never found, and the other died in France. I'm glad Ryan made it home safely at least.
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May 28, 2018 19:38
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I like people that weren’t captured
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May 28, 2018 19:39
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I sure am tired of these wars.
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May 28, 2018 19:39
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Chomp8645 posted:I'm glad Ryan made it home safely at least. it does sound like a lot for one family but they had i think 13 kids, mostly guys so it wasn't that out of the ordinary. The rest that were old enough to go made it back but they didn't send tom hanks to go get them, they just didn't die.
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May 28, 2018 19:47
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I went to middle school and high school with this guy. https://thefallen.militarytimes.com/army-sgt-joshua-a-born/6568122 We were acquaintances through other friends. The last time I saw him was at another friends going away party to the airforce. He was shipping out not long after. Not really sure of all the details but I think he died during a ambush.
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May 28, 2018 19:47
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https://thefallen.militarytimes.com/army-spc-justin-a-rollins/2610400 He was a piece of poo poo. He was rude and arrogant and when one an acquaintance of mine was diagnosed with schizophrenia, Justin would whisper "Kill yourself. Everybody hates you" and on numerous occasions reduced him to tears, just because he felt like making fun of somebody (a very nice and well-liked somebody) with a mental illness. One time at a party Justin got his rear end whipped bad and spent the next week lying about how he actually won. Naturally, after he died in Iraq he loved by the entire town and they named a bridge after him.
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May 28, 2018 19:57
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Wayne Monismith. He worked for my grandma for a while and then went to Viet Nam and came home in a box. Here's his wall profile: http://thewall-usa.com/info.asp?recid=35937
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May 28, 2018 20:06
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They fell out of a guard tower
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May 28, 2018 20:52
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Isaac posted:They fell out of a guard tower Sorry to hear your Israeli grandfather died in Palestine.
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May 28, 2018 20:54
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i blew off an army recruiter around the time my friends got into it and i regretted it briefly, and got in contact with the navy and af recruiters instead, at the behest of my grandfathers and dad, who smelled poo poo in the water. ultimately everyone in my family who served in prior generations thought enlistment was a terrible idea and it turns out they were right. i still think about it, i'm not quite un-recruitable yet and it's not like i struggle in that environment lol
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May 28, 2018 20:55
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basic hitler posted:i blew off an army recruiter around the time my friends got into it and i regretted it briefly, and got in contact with the navy and af recruiters instead, at the behest of my grandfathers and dad, who smelled poo poo in the water. What!?! How could you be part of such evil?  Oh and 
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May 28, 2018 20:59
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Spinster posted:What!?! Economic need + the kind of personality i have friend. i like america honestly, i just want it to be better than what it is.
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May 28, 2018 21:02
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May 28, 2018 21:02
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so many lost, to the console war
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May 28, 2018 21:05
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my friend Anakin went MIA in the clone wars
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May 28, 2018 21:23
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Yes. Most people have a connection to one or more persons who have died in war.
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May 28, 2018 21:57
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my uncle was killed in the war on christmas
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May 28, 2018 22:00
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I like to get freaking annihilated in the war on drugs if that counts
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May 28, 2018 22:06
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2005 PFC Murray PFC Knott 2006 CPL Zayas SGT Weir 2008 PFC Thomas CPT Dalessio LT Brown Though, weirdly, I have lost more friends to suicide than combat in the years since
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May 28, 2018 22:11
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Compared to seven combat losses, I only know one (civilian) suicide, one military colleague killed in a training accident (pilot), and two military colleagues both killed when their bicycles were hit by drunk drivers. Oh, and my former first sergeant retired, and since he was airborne qualified he went to work for a skydiving company. A couple months in his chute failed and he hit the ground, so either a terrible accident or a subtle suicide. So of all my friends and colleagues around my age, seven combat deaths and 5 non-combat.
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May 28, 2018 22:30
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basic hitler posted:Economic need + the kind of personality i have friend. liking america and actively assisting in implementing its lovely foreign policy don't need to overlap. what's the most recent war an american combatant could have engaged in and honestly be able to claim it was morally justified or done with (at the time) informed and good intention? WW2?
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May 28, 2018 22:36
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given my skillsets and preference for the, uh, rearguard i'd probably be shuffled into some boring rear end cog job with reliable pay, where i'm fundamentally causing no worse harm than some private businesses i could work for locally, who are doing way more harm internationally atm lol
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May 28, 2018 22:39
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