re: A memorium in pictures to the fallen, to the boys who don’t come home.

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ETA: The US military, like that of the British one before it, has overwhelmingly been a force of human progress and the creation of security for the majority of the world. A "racket" for the good of humanity if you will.

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Smedley Butler was a great Marine, but the ignorant use of his very time specific and anecdotal quotes by pseudo intellectuals and conspiracy theorists, esp as internet memes has become flat out silly

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SSgt. Fontenot was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.; died Oct. 18, 2007 in Baghdad of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device and small-arms fire during combat operations.

Fort Carson soldier dies in Baghdad
The Associated Press

FORT CARSON, Colo. — A soldier based at Fort Carson who family members said aspired to be a soldier since he was a little boy has died of injuries suffered after an explosion and gunfire during his second tour in Iraq.

Staff Sgt. Jarred S. Fontenot, 35, of Port Barre, La., died Thursday in Baghdad, the military announced Friday.

Military officials said an improvised device exploded and Fontenot came under small arms fire during combat operations.

He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division.

He is the 224th Fort Carson soldier killed in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in March 2003. The 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, has lost 110 of those soldiers.

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