This morning I heard a story on NPR's Morning Edition.
It was about Pvt. Louis Perez. He was 19 years old.
I say was, because he was just killed in Iraq.
Let me say it again--he was NINETEEN FUCKING YEARS OLD!!
But that's only the start of the story. Apparently, this kid recently graduated from high school. He joined the Army reserve right away. And when he was called up to serve in Iraq, he asked if he could marry his seventeen year old girlfriend before he left. Her mother wanted them to wait, but he apparently took her aside and said he had a feeling he might not come back from Iraq. He wanted her to be taken care of.
So, this was a good kid. He had his whole life ahead of him. And three days after he got to Iraq, he was killed by a roadside bomb.
And his wife is a seventeen year old widow who is still in high school.
God Bless America.
You can hear the full story here:
http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgDate=09-Sep-2004&prgId=3
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