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This Week’s Post Was Suggested & Written By Mary Ann
Sgt. Kenneth G. Ross
24 years old from Tucson, Arizona
7th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment
September 25, 2005
“He believed in serving his country,” said Ross’ father, David C. Ross. Gary Anderson, Ross’ best friend and an Army infantry veteran who served nine months in Afghanistan and 11 months in Iraq during his active duty stint, was a classmate of Ross at Marana’s Mountain View High School. “You know, I heard this news of Ken and I broke down and cried hysterically,” said Anderson, now a firefighter for the Ak-Chin Indian Community in Maricopa. “He loved everyone; everyone who came in contact with him loved him. He’d always help everyone out that he could.”
A 1999 graduate of Mountain View, Ross played drums in the marching band and orchestra, his father said. Ross enlisted in the Army right after graduation. “He just wanted to take part in history,” Anderson said.
At the time of his death, he was a helicopter mechanic — acting as a door gunner on his last mission, his father said. SSgt. Ross was killed when his helicopter went down southwest of Deh Chopan, Afghanistan. Also killed in the crash were Sgt. Shawn A. Graham, Warrent Officer Adrian B. Stump, Sgt. Tane T. Baum, Chief Warrent Officer 2 John M. Flynn and Sgt. Patrick D. Stewart.
Along with his father, SSgt. Ross is survived by his mother, Mary Ross, 57, and his sister, Stephanie Ross, 30. “I know his last thoughts were for everybody else and not for himself,” Anderson said. “I know he wanted to make sure everybody was safe and would go home.”
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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Meredith Leyva – founder of CinCHouse.com – explains in a new blog post that “Military families cannot make it easy for terrorists to string together information that could aide them in their operations against American troops” CinCHouse.com announced a new ‘signature’ education campaign aimed at teaching new military wives the importance of operational security.
The new campaign provides free digital images and HTML code which visitors can place in their signature lines on CinCHouse.com or anywhere else they go on the Internet. The signatures remind military families that any discussion about troop and equipment movement is strictly forbidden and could cost lives.
I know I’ve heard this time and time again being a Navy Wife – “Loose Lips Sink Ships” – it’s probably more important to remember now than ever before with so many people on the Internet. I don’t mean to scare you, but don’t you realize that the “Bad Guys” can find any information they want just by popping into MySpace, Facebook or Twitter and getting a nice close personal look at you, your family and your Active Duty loved one?
For example – say you are excited about your “honey” coming home from a deployment; you post a simple “Ticker” on your MySpace. Now – the entire world can see exactly when your “honey’s” plane or ship is coming in. Doesn’t that make them a target?
Another example – an Active Duty member is posting on his Twitter account about where he is currently deployed to and the fact that there are troops moving in and out. So, now everyone in the world knows that there was an “influx” of troops on a specific day to a specific place. Doesn’t that, again, make them a target?
Be MINDFUL of the things you put online. Just ASSUME that “they” are watching all of your posts, tickers and ‘Tweets’ looking for ammunition. Better to be safe than sorry I would think.
Pfc. Alan R. Blohm 21 years old from Kenai, Alaska 425th Brigade Special Troops Battalion,
4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division – December 31, 2006
Alan R. Blohm enlisted in the Army in 2004 because “He wanted to serve the country,” his brother Jeremy said. “His grandfather had been in the Army, and it’s just something he wanted to do.” Blohm graduated in 2004 from Bay City Western High School, where he was a 250-pound defensive player for the football team. Blohm’s size prompted coach Jim Eurick to nickname him “Biggins Blohm,” his brother recalled. “I know he paid the ultimate sacrifice with his life,” Mark Boileau, Blohm’s former school Principal, said. “We know Alan will be in a better place because of the sacrifice he made, because of his love for our country.” PFC. Blohm died of wounds suffered when an IED detonated near his unit while on combat patrol in Baghdad Besides his brother, he leaves behind his parents and a younger sister.
Information Was Found On And Copied From
MilitaryCity.com &
The Iraq Page These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.
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