Hundreds Mourn Fallen Georgia Soldier
Weekend Edition from my town this morning:
In Milledgeville, Ga., hundreds turned out to pay their respects to a small-town hero with a larger-than-life personality. Following two tours of duty in Iraq, Staff Sgt. Alex French IV, a member of Georgia’s 48th Brigade, was killed in a suicide bomb attack Sept. 30 in Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.
Local coverage from The Macon Telegraph and Union Recorder. Ten other soldiers died in Iraq and Afghanistan that week:
Army SGT Titus R Reynolds, 23, of Columbus, OH
Army SGT Edward B Smith, 30, of Homestead, FL
Army SPC Joseph V White, 21, of Bellevue, WA
Army SPC Kevin J Graham, 27, of Benton, KY
Marine LCpl Jordan L Chrobot, 24, of Frederick, MD
Army SPC Ross E Vogel, III, 27, of Red Lion, PA
Army SFC Christopher D Shaw, 37, of Markham, IL
Army SSG Jack M Martin III, 26, of Bethany, OK
Army SPC Russell S Hercules Jr, 22 of Murfreesboro, TN
Army SGT Ryan C Adams, 26 of Rhinelander, WI
Of the 1463 soldiers killed in Afghanistan, 881 were from the US.
5 Responses to “Hundreds Mourn Fallen Georgia Soldier”
Joe:
Thanks for, through your post, honoring Staff Sgt. Alex French and the ten other heroes.
Dorian
RIP SSgt. French, a reminder that troops still die while presidents deliberate.
Do you really think they were heroes? I think that they were poor fellows.
Are you actually suggesting that had more troops been thrown in willy-nilly that SSgt. French would've been saved?! Give me deliberation and getting things right over “gut” leadership and possibly putting more of our troops in possibly unnecessary danger any day!
Good catch, Joe. I heard about the return home of this man to Milledgeville on the radio and wondered if you might notice something, since it was such a big event.
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“Are you actually suggesting that had more troops been thrown in willy-nilly that SSgt. French would've been saved?! “
Nobody is saying “willy-nillly,” which you are mistakenly assuming here.
There may be excess delay in boosting troops by ObamaCo, but this has to be seen in the bigger context — they have frequently behaved as though they are in over their heads and really don't know and can't firmly and promptly decide what they want. Not only about Afghanistan, but about economic intervention of all kinds, health care “reform,” everything. We can't expect prompt action from them.