We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/05/memorial_day_2005_notifications.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:02:06 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification I got asked in an email why did I just repost last year's post? Wasn't that old news? I did it to remind people of what each of those notifications results in, in one form or another. That news is, sadly, still fresh, and happens day after day. Yet it is only one strata of bedrock upon which the future is built. 'Tis up to us, the living, to decide whether it will be saprolite, *rotted rock,* or a limestone of sufficient hardness to use as a building material. Notifications? Like this - these are the notifications that arrived today.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/05/memorial_day_2005_notifications.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/05/memorial_day_2005_notifications.html Mon, 30 May 2005 20:42:38 -0600 Deaths in training make even less news. There have been two here at Ft Jackson since I got here-the first on the Night Infiltration Course (NIC-where trainees crawl under live machine gun fire) and the second from heat stroke. I've seen the fallout from two other in my brigades during my 9 years in the Army-a truck accident in Yakima, and a M113 broken track rollover at Graf. Being a soldier is dangerous work, even when nobody's shooting at you. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/05/memorial_day_2005_notifications.html#comment-25595 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/05/memorial_day_2005_notifications.html#comment-25595 Tue, 31 May 2005 09:08:51 -0600 Thanks for the reminders John. Not all of these deaths will make national news, so we don't always hear about them- esp. the non-combat related deaths. So sad... but then again, that's why we Dance In Memorium- to honor their lives and their service. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/05/memorial_day_2005_notifications.html#comment-25579 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/05/memorial_day_2005_notifications.html#comment-25579 Mon, 30 May 2005 21:07:45 -0600