
<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><div><div><div></div><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Courtesy of the September 17</span><span class="s3">, 2012 edition of the Army Times.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">-------------------------------</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">The following U.S. service members died while supporting Operation</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s3">Enduring Freedom combat operations in Afghanistan, confirmed by the</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s3">D</span><span class="s3">efense Department from August 31</span><span class="s3">, 2012 through </span><span class="s3">September 6</span><span class="s3">, 2012:</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Army </span><span class="s3">Staff Sgt. </span><span class="s3">Jeremie</span><span class="s3"> S.</span><span class="s3"> Border, 28, of Mesquite, Texas;</span><span class="s3"> assigned to 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), Torii Station, Japan</span><span class="s3">.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Army </span><span class="s3">Pfc. Shane </span><span class="s3">W. Cantu, 20, of Corunna, Michigan; </span><span class="s3">assigned to 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, </span><span class="s3">Caserma</span><span class="s3"> Ederle, Vicenza, Italy.</span><span class="s3"></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Army </span><span class="s3">Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jose L. Montenegro Jr., 31, of Houston, Texas</span><span class="s3">; </span><span class="s3">assigned to the 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg,</span><span class="s3"> North Carolina.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Army </span><span class="s3">Chief Warrant Officer 2 </span><span class="s3">Thalia</span><span class="s3"> S. Ram</span><span class="s3">irez, 28, of San Antonio, Texas; </span><span class="s3">assigned to the 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg,</span><span class="s3"> North Carolina.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Army </span><span class="s3">Staff Sgt. Jonathan P. Schmidt, 28, of Petersburg, V</span><span class="s3">irginia;</span><span class="s3"> assigned to 192nd Ordnance Battalion, 52nd Ordnance Group, 20th Support Command (CBRNE), Fort Bragg,</span><span class="s3"> North Carolina.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Marine </span><span class="s3">Lance Cpl. Alec R. </span><span class="s3">Terwiske</span><span class="s3">, 21, of Dubois, Ind</span><span class="s3">iana;</span><span class="s3"> assigned to 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"></span> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">August 31</span><span class="s3">, 2012 – </span><span class="s3">September 6</span><span class="s3">, 2012</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Killed: 6; Wounded in action: 13</span><span class="s3">4</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">October 10, 2001 – </span><span class="s3">September 6</span><span class="s3">, 2012</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Killed: 2,</span><span class="s3">101</span><span class="s3">; Wounded in action: 17,</span><span class="s3">516</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">-------------------------------</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">National Guard (in Federal Status) and Reserve Activated</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">(</span><span class="s3">as</span><span class="s3"> of August 29, 2012)</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"><a href="http://www.defense.gov/news/d20120829ngr.pdf">http://www.defense.gov/news/d20120829ngr.pdf</a></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">---------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">And the beat goes on . . .</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">“Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> Home"</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Bring_em_Home.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Bring_em_Home.mp3</a></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">"If you love this land of the free</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home, bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring them back from overseas</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home, bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">It will make the politicians sad, I know</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home, bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">They </span><span class="s3">wanna</span><span class="s3"> tangle with their foe</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home, bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">They </span><span class="s3">wanna</span><span class="s3"> test their grand theories</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home, bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">With the blood of you and me</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home, bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Now we'll give no more brave young lives</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home, bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">For the gleam in someone else's eyes</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home, bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">The men will cheer and the boys will shout</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home, bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Yeah and we will all turn out</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home, bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">The church bells will ring with joy</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home, bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">To welcome our </span><span class="s3">darlin</span><span class="s3">' girls and boys</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home, bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">We will lift our voice and sound</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home, bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Yeah, when Johnny comes marching home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home, bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> home."</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">---------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Pro patria,</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Tom Hansen</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">SFC, US Army (Retired)</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">Moscow, Idaho</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3"><br></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s3">tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3">-- Adlai E. Stevenson</span></p><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; "> </span></div><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "> </p><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><span style="line-height: 21px; "><br></span></div></div><div></div></div><div></div></div></div></body></html>