Ranging Reporter update: Have you ever known a soldier who has died in action?
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Ranging Reporter J.R. Ortega had a change of scenery today. The Java Bean at DeTar Hospital is quiet, but has its people coming in and out. He asks the question of the day: Have you ever known a soldier who has died in action?
A: "It's a true mess. If people do it, they do it because they want to."
Lowell Adams, Victoria, Walmart
A: "When I see stories like that, it touches my heart because I have two sons that are to Iraq next month."
Vic Kocian, Victoria, Java Bean owner
A: "Being an ex-military person, anyone that dies is a brother or sister."
Richard Carney, Victoria, security guard
A: "Instead of coming home, they are coming home in a casket with an American flag on it. They should bring them home to fight their own wars here."
Patrick Petru, Victoria, unemployed
What's a ranging reporter? These reporters go out into the community, regularly filing live reports, photos and video from around the Crossroads region. To contact J.R. Ortega, e-mail jortega@vicad.com or just add a comment to this story.
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"From now until the end of the world, we and it shall be remembered. We few, we Band of Brothers.
For he who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother."
- William Shakespeare ("King Henry V")
From now until the end of the world....and then some.
October 22, 2009 at 8 a.m.i have seen soldiers wounded in combat, Soldier next to me had his knee blown off by friendly fire, i have seen body bags with US soldiers KIA. I have seen many enemy combatants dead and dying.
i am a Gulf War and Iraqi Freedom veteran.
Redlegs Rule!!!
October 21, 2009 at 12:16 p.m.My uncle was killed in Viet Nam in March 1968. I was 7 1/2 years old. It was the first death that I remember.
October 20, 2009 at 4:56 p.m.during the VietNam War I lost a friend in 1967 and I've never forgotten him! I remember and honour our war dead! This family lost one in WW2 and one in Korea!
October 20, 2009 at 9:22 a.m.