MellowGold

Today our city buried it's first casuality. He graduated from our high school about 4 years ago. He was incredibly active and very well liked.

Our entire school lined the streets while the body went by. 1700 kids all holding flags. The crazy part? It was completely silent. It is a known fact in our school that impossible to get us all quiet during assemblies. But this was completely different.

Has the war hit home with anyone here?

v6_accord_jerz

That sucks....fortunately no one that I know has gone down in the line of duty...my sister recently joined the army but is only in boot camp, I guess I can say I been fortunate.

98CoupeV6

None of the 60 or so enlisted members of my graduating class have passed away while in the military, but about 10-15 have died in car accidents, drug overdoses and other accidental deaths.

k3ifers

you had 60 kids enlist from your graduating class? wow

98CoupeV6

I believe it was 60. Maybe 50. I dunno, it was a ton.

MellowGold

Our school has a problem with suicides. We have abour 3 or 4 a year. We just had another on Monday. It was a senior too and very popular.

It has been a rough week for our school.

MellowGold

...ooops

canada

I'd say maybe one grad every two years from my school goes to the military after HS

i was one of them.

Omniscient

I'm not sure how many people from CT have died in the war. I know a popular guy from the next town over just came home because he was shot in the face and the bullet exited the back of his neck. He survived and had surjery and came back to Salem.

lil_1_2002

no, thank God, my friends husband was in both afganistan and iraq and lucky he made it back home safely and is done with his 8 years of service