
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">Courtesy of the October 15</span><span class="s3">, 2012 edition of the Army Times.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-------------------------------</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">The following U.S. service members died while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom combat operations in Afghanistan, confirmed by the Def</span><span class="s3">ense Department from</span><span class="s3">September 28</span><span class="s3">, 2012 through </span><span class="s3">October 4</span><span class="s3">, 2012:</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">Army </span><span class="s3">Sgt. Thomas J. Bu</span><span class="s3">tler IV, 25, of Wilmington, North Carolina</span><span class="s3">;</span><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s3">assigned to the 514th Military Police Company, 60th </span><span class="s3">Troop Command, Winterville, North Carolina.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">Army </span><span class="s3">Sgt. Jeremy F. </span><span class="s3">Hardison</span><span class="s3">, 23, of Maysville, North Carolina; </span><span class="s3">assigned to the 514th Military Police Company, 60th </span><span class="s3">Troop Command, Winterville, North Carolina.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">Army </span><span class="s3">Sgt. 1st Class Aaron A. Henderson, 33, of Houlton, Maine</span><span class="s3">; </span><span class="s3">assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Fort Campbell, K</span><span class="s3">entuck</span><span class="s3">y.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">Army </span><span class="s3">Sgt. Donna </span><span class="s3">R. Johnson, 29, of Raeford, North Carolina; </span><span class="s3">assigned to the 514th Military Police Company, 60th </span><span class="s3">Troop Command, Winterville, North Carolina.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">Army </span><span class="s3">Staff Sgt. Justin C</span><span class="s3">. Marquez, 25, of Aberdeen, North Carolina; </span><span class="s3">assigned to the 1st Special Forces Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Gr</span><span class="s3">oup (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">Army </span><span class="s3">Sgt. 1st Class Daniel T. Metcalfe, 29, of Liverpool, N</span><span class="s3">ew York; </span><span class="s3">assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airb</span><span class="s3">orne Brigade Combat Team, </span><span class="s3">Casern</span><span class="s3">a</span><span class="s3">Ederle in Vicenza, Italy.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">Army </span><span class="s3">Warrant Officer Joseph L. </span><span class="s3">Sch</span><span class="s3">iro</span><span class="s3">,</span><span class="s3"> 27, of Coral Springs, Florida; </span><span class="s3">assigned to the 1st Special Forces Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Gr</span><span class="s3">oup (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">Marine </span><span class="s3">Sgt. </span><span class="s3">Camella</span><span class="s3"> M. </span><span class="s3">Steedley</span><span class="s3">, 31, of San Diego, Calif</span><span class="s3">ornia;</span><span class="s3"> assigned to Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleto</span><span class="s3">n, California.</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">September 28</span><span class="s3">, 2012 – </span><span class="s3">October 4</span><span class="s3">, 2012</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">Killed: </span><span class="s3">8</span><span class="s3">; Wounded in action: </span><span class="s3">40</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">October 10, 2001 – </span><span class="s3">October 4</span><span class="s3">, 2012</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">Killed: </span><span class="s3">2,121</span><span class="s3">; Wounded in action: 17,</span><span class="s3">818</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">---------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And the beat goes on . . .</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">“Bring '</span><span class="s3">em</span><span class="s3"> Home"</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"If you love this land of the free</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bring them back from overseas</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It will make the politicians sad, I know</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">They </span><span class="s3">wanna</span><span class="s3"> tangle with their foe</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">They </span><span class="s3">wanna</span><span class="s3"> test their grand theories</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With the blood of you and me</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now we'll give no more brave young lives</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For the gleam in someone else's eyes</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The men will cheer and the boys will shout</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yeah and we will all turn out</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The church bells will ring with joy</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3">To welcome our </span><span class="s3">darlin</span><span class="s3">' girls and boys</span></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We will lift our voice and sound</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yeah, when Johnny comes marching home</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><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></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">---------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pro patria,</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SFC, US Army (Retired)</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"></span> </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; "><span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Adlai E. Stevenson</span></p></div></body></html>