roll call
tommyOn Loyalty Day - May 1, 2003 President Bush declared major combat operations in Iraq have ended. Since that day exactly four years ago, over 3300 American soldiers have died in Iraq. That’s 9 dead American Heroes every four days, or 1 every 11 hours or so.
Starting with Lance Corporal Brian Rory Buesing of Cedar Key and Lance Corporal David Keith Fribley of Ft. Myers who died on March 23, 2003 and including Sgt. Peter Woodall, 25, of Sarasota who died Friday, April 27, 2007, 135 of our dead American soldiers have been from Florida, 31 have been from Tampa Bay, and 11 of those claimed Tampa as their home.
We’re going to name each of the soldiers from Florida, and will post one every 11 hours or so. If we start today, we should finish around the 4th of July. Unfortunately, by that time, another 136 US soldiers will likely die - five of them Floridians, and one of them your nearby neighbor…
Check back in 11 hours or so…
Tags: citizens, Florida, military
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May 1st, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Bravo Tommy.
Too often we forget the real cost of this war.
This is such a fantastic blog.
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:28 am
I think it’s fantastic that you are doing this Tommy….
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Wouldn’t it be nice if those 136 were brought home before you have to list them?
Posting the names is admirable. Is it time to break from your apolitical easy chair? Surprising that that big booming voice is so silent on so many issues that, as this post notes, clearly affects us locally. Hopefully this is the first of many Sticks initiatives to bring awareness to the apathetic masses.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Tommy does a good job of bringing awareness to Sticks readers, and I thank him for doing this in a calm, apolitical manner. I have protested this war multiple times, in multiple locations, loudly. But this seems to me like a respectful remembrance of those we’ve lost, and I want to show my respect to them and their loved ones even if I don’t agree with their politics.
May 2nd, 2007 at 4:49 pm
That’s cool Merideth, I totally agree, he does a fine job. No harm in me giving a friendly little poke to do something more than just a “fine” job when it comes to this issue. My fantasy is a “super duper fantasmical” job.
For me, I feel my respect is best served unfettered by blog, or any locale.
Peace.