Sunday, June 13, 2010

Afghan Milestones - US's Longest and 1,000th Death

If you want to get technical the Afghan war may be the longest active conflict however we are still technically at war with North Korea some six decades after it started having never formally ended it.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100530/D9G1297O1.html

"The 1,000th American serviceman killed in Afghanistan was born on the Fourth of July. He died several days before Americans honor fallen troops on Memorial Day.

Marine Cpl. Jacob C. Leicht was killed Thursday when he stepped on a land mine in Helmand province that ripped off his right arm. 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.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/afghan-war-now-longest-war-us-history/story?id=10849303

"And today "The Other War" has gained a fresh and dubious distinction: it is the longest war in our nation's history, surpassing the conflict in Vietnam. 103 months passed between passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the withdrawal of the last American combat forces from Vietnam. As of today, the Afghanistan war is 104 months old."

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