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.
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  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.

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

    Oh no! I hope that they are all well.

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