Tag: task force lightning soldiers

I left for the beach on May 18 and returned on May 28. During that period of a little over a week, we lost 59 soldiers in Iraq, including at least 8 on Memorial Day: At least eight U.S. soldiers were killed in restive Diyala province north of Baghdad on Memorial Day, two of the […]

But as Laura Bush, the Ice Queen, would say; “It’s just that one bomb a day”. At least nine U.S. soldiers were killed Monday in a pair of deadly attacks north of Baghdad, U.S. military statements released Tuesday said. “Six Task Force Lightning soldiers died as a result of injuries sustained following an explosion near […]