The Final Chapter, The Final Page
This is it. This is the final blog from FOB Brassfield –Mora. My bags are packed and the birds are inbound. I am headed out to LSA Anaconda for a few days where we will link back up with our orginal battalion and then we will all head back to the Mother Land!
I honestly can not believe that it is finally here. We are finally going home. We have fought the fight, we have fought it to the standard and we have made a difference. We helped the people of Iraq, we made this area safer, stronger and have helped get them on the path to a better future. There are so many things I will never forget from my times here. This place is full of surprises, horror, and complete and total craziness. Even through all the war and poverty there is still some bleak form of beauty in all the chaos.
More than anything else, I will never forget the soldiers and friends I lost here. During the past 14 months here we have lost 24 guys from this FOB. Six of those soldiers were from my company, a company that consisted of only 75 soldiers that left the safety of the FOB. They were my friends, they were guys I use to joke with and guys I fought side by side with. All good men and all will never be forgotten.
For the past 14 months you all have been so supportive and gracious with all the care packages, comments and cards. You all have been so great and made my life so much better over here. I know I have told you all before, but once again, with all seriousness; Thank you. And finally for the last time from my CHU, take care and I will see you soon and Thank you.
"NEVER FORGET"
1LT Ceroni, KIA, Samarra, Iraq - VBIED
SPC. Winkler, KIA, Samarra, Iraq - VBIED
1LT. Bacevich, KIA, Samarra, Iraq - Suicide Bomber
SGT. Dunn, KIA, Samarra, Iraq - Culvert Bomb
SPC. Jaraguie, KIA, Samarra, Iraq - Culvert Bomb
SPC. Millard, KIA, Samarra, Iraq - Culvert Bomb
SPC. Winkler, KIA, Samarra, Iraq - VBIED
1LT. Bacevich, KIA, Samarra, Iraq - Suicide Bomber
SGT. Dunn, KIA, Samarra, Iraq - Culvert Bomb
SPC. Jaraguie, KIA, Samarra, Iraq - Culvert Bomb
SPC. Millard, KIA, Samarra, Iraq - Culvert Bomb
SPC. Hall, WIA, Samarra, Iraq - Lost his leg from an IED
SGT. James, WIA, Samarra, Iraq - Lost his leg from an IED
SGT. Cowart, WIA, Samarra, Iraq - Lost his leg from a Suicide Bomber
SGT. Roberti, WIA, Samarra, Iraq - Shrapnel from a VBIED
SPC. Ashby, WIA, Samarra, Iraq - Shrapnel from a VBIED
SGT. Ford, WIA, Samarra, Iraq - Broken Back from a Culvert Bomb
SGT. Brong, WIA, Samarra, Iraq - Paralized from a Culvert Bomb
SPC. Hardin, WIA, Samarra, Iraq - Lost his hand from and RPG
SGT. Parsons, WIA, Samarra, Iraq - Shrapnel Wounds from an RPG
SSG. Crumpler, WIA, Samarra, Iraq - Broken Leg from and IED
SGT. Uber, WIA, Samarra, Iraq - Trama to the head from and IED
Team Delta, 2nd Battalion 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
82nd Airborne Division
Samarra, Iraq
OIF 6 - OIF 7
OCT 1st 2006 - DEC 1st 2007
“DRAGOONS”
posted by Jacob @ 4:35 AM
4 Comments
4 Comments:
i sure am proud of you...
Thank you for all you've done for us and for the Iraqis. You truly are an American Hero.
I can't believe it's finally over. Now hurry up and get home to me...
<3HB
i honestly can't express the feelings I have reading the KIA and WIA. Then seeing your name at the bottom makes it even harder for me to believe.
A Soldier He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled,
That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust,
But still lies pointed as it ploughed the dust.
If we who sight along it round the world,
See nothing worthy to have been its mark,
It is because like men we look too near,
Forgetting that as fitted to the sphere,
Our missiles always make too short an arc.
They fall, they rip the grass, they intersect
The curve of earth, and striking, break their own;
They make us cringe for metal-point on stone.
But this we know, the obstacle that checked
And tripped the body, shot the spirit on
Further than target ever showed or shone.
-Robert Frost.
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