Saturday, August 6, 2011

30 American service members were killed.

In case you have not heard the tragic news, 30 American service members were shot down in a military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan.

U.S. Marines direct a chinook helicopter arriving to pick up a container with supplies at Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Thursday, June 9, 2011. A chinook helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops and seven Afghan commandos. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
Image from Yahoo.

You can read more here and there is a video news clip as well.  

Please take a moment and pray for our troops and their families.
at
Labels:

2 comments:

  1. KendraAugust 8, 2011 at 3:38 AM

    You have no idea how badly this freaked me out, when we got the news, with two family members currently deployed there.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Fairly localAugust 8, 2011 at 8:05 AM

    Oh no! I hope that they are all well.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
  • The real life Norman and Norma Bates..........
    Psycho  is a suspense novel written by Robert Bloch in 1959 which Alfred Hitchcock release a film adaptation of Psycho  one year later whic...
  • The Lady of the Lake.
    My fascination for all things haunted continues.  This time Lake Lanier is my haunted focus. Specifically the Lady of the Lake. A lit...
Thanks for horsing around with me. You really never know what you will get when you read my blog so thanks for stopping by.