That's murder, after all.
"Marine who topped Afghan toll had pined for return to combat" by Paul J. Weber, Associated Press | May 31, 2010
KERRVILLE, Texas — The 1,000th American service member killed in Afghanistan was born on the Fourth of July....
He was a Yankee Doodle Dandy?
Marine Corporal Jacob C. Leicht was killed Thursday when he stepped on a land mine in Helmand province. It was the 24-year-old Texan’s second deployment overseas.
Leicht had begged to return to the battlefield after a bomb took out his Humvee in Iraq. He spent two painful years recovering from face and leg injuries, all the while pining for combat in letters from his hospital bed.
He finally got back to the front lines, but was killed less than a month into the tour of duty he desperately wanted....
What an uplifting story, 'eh, readers?
Gotta bunch of 'em!
Related: Slow Saturday Special: From One to One Thousand
Another of the lucky 1000:
"Connecticut National Guard Staff Sergeant Edwin Rivera died at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on May 25, five days after he was wounded....
The 28-year-old was in his second deployment. He was married with two young sons....
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