Sergeant Re-Enlists After Losing Hand in Iraq IED Attack (FoxNews.com)
I know this story doesn’t follow the “official” talking points sheet in any dialogue about blacks and the current war in the Middle East, but oh well…
“Returning to her camp near Baghdad, Sgt. 1st Class Juanita Wilson’s last supply run turned out very differently than the other missions in her seven-month tour in Iraq.
“We got everything we needed and [were] on our way back … about an hour from our camp … that’s when something happened to our vehicle,” recounted Wilson, a full-time member of the Army Reserve whose unit deployed to Iraq in March of 2004.
That ’something’ was an improvised explosive device (IED) that wounded her and several members of her convoy in August of 2004. The explosion cost Wilson her left hand and some of her arm (more…).”
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Thanks sis. !
This is a brave woman, my hat’s off to her! God bless her.
Comment by VB | April 17, 2006
Having trouble posting again.
Why is it that only Foxs News covers stories like this?
Comment by Dolphin | April 17, 2006
Part 2
This girl hasn’t taken the easy road that is available to those in the military who have lost a limb. This isn’t a story about a Black, nor about a woman. It is a story about a brave American.
Comment by Dolphin | April 17, 2006
I can’t get the rest of it to post. Maybe it’s me.
Thanks for your service SFC Wilson. Thanks for your sacrifice. You have made meny of us proud.
Comment by Dolphin | April 17, 2006
Dolphin,
Try clearing the cache in your browser and see if that fixes your problem.
Comment by Duane | April 17, 2006
10-4 Duane, will do.
Comment by Dolphin | April 17, 2006
She is a better American than me cause I know I wouldn’t go back.
Comment by Saudia | April 17, 2006
I find it very hard to praise another human being going to take lives in the name of war or protecting or even the backwards religous concept of “sacrfice for the good of the whole”. War is still to me a fundamental error made by man. We were made and put here to kill each other or even in American terms we shouldnt force our democracy on a people who don’t want it.
Comment by Brian | April 17, 2006
Excuse me We Were *NOT Made and put here to kill each other
Comment by Brian | April 17, 2006
In a perfect world thare would be no war. This ain’t close to a perfect world.
As far as taking living “in the name of protecting”, I would like to see more protecting in Darfur, Chad, Ivory Coast, and other places where people cannot defend themselves.
As a retired soldier, I agree that war is the most horrid invention of man, and the military hate it. Having said that, the military also know that sometimes it must be waged.
Comment by Dolphin | April 17, 2006
My typo. Should be - “taking lives”
Comment by Dolphin | April 17, 2006
Thank you SFC Wilson and the other brave men/women of our Armed Forces. You make me proud of the military people we have in this country.
Comment by John moore | April 21, 2006