OUT OF IRAQ
The Iraq War is officially over….after nearly nine years. Early today, the last caravan of American troops crossed the border and into neighboring Kuwait. On the day this war started, back on March 20, 2003, The Real Walrus was there on the front lines as an embedded reporter with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). And, as irony would have it, a family member–my niece’s husband, a member of the Kentucky National Guard–was among the last Americans to leave Iraq.
The final U.S. death toll from the Iraq War is 4,487 killed. More than 32,000 were wounded during the war that toppled the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.
History will record that a Greensboro, N.C., soldier was the last American to die fighting the war.
David Emanuel Hickman was killed on Nov. 14 in Baghdad, when a homemade bomb exploded during a patrol by his unit. The 23-year-old soldier was buried last month after a large ceremony packed with family and friends.
One down…and one (Afghanistan) to go…
Tags: Make Love Not War
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