Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord,...

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Marine Lance Cpl. Michael G. Plank, 25, of Cameron Mills, N.Y.; assigned to the 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; died June 9 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
My prayers are with his family and friends.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord,

And let perpetual light shine upon him.

May he rest in peace.

Semper Fi

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord...

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Army 1st Lt. Joseph J. Theinert 24, of Sag Harbor, N.Y.; a New York Army National Guardsman assigned to the 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, N.Y.; died June 4 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device during a dismounted patrol.
My prayers are with his family and friends.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord,

and let perpetual light shine upon him.

May he rest in peace.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O, Lord...

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USMC Sgt. Frank J. A. World, of Tonawanda, NY, was killed in action in Afghanistan on Thursday April 1, 2010.  He leaves a wife and 2 small children.  My thoughts and prayers go out to his family & friends.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O, Lord

and let perpetual light shine upon him.

May he rest in peace.

Semper Fi

Eternal rest grant unto him O, Lord...

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Marine, LCpl. Zach Smith, 19, of Hornell, NY was killed in action in Afganistan this past week by an I.E.D.
My prayers go out to his young wife (they were married this past summer), his family and the people of Hornell.

Eternal rest grant unto him O, Lord

and let pepetual light shine upon him.

May he rest in peace.

Semper Fidelis

Eternal Rest grant unto him O, Lord...

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Army Spc. Jason M. Johnston, 24 of Albion, NY, of the 82nd Airborne Division gave the ultimate sacrifice on December 26, 2009 in Afghanistan when insurgents attacked his unit with an IED.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord,

and let perpetual light shine upon him.

May he rest in peace.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord,...

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Staff Sgt. Dennis J. Hansen

A soldier with connections to our area gave the ultimate sacrifice last week. Staff Sgt. Dennis J. Hansen, originally from Ohio, stationed out of Fort Drum, was serving in Afghanistan when wounded, he succumbed to those injuries a few days later at a hospital in Germany.

Losing a loved one is never easy, it is especially difficult during the holiday season.
I offer my prayers to SSgt. Hansen’s family and friends.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.

May he rest in peace.

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,

I am introducing a new feature to my blog.
I pray that it is not a regular feature, but I feel that it is an very important one.

A soldier from Rochester died recently (2 actually the past few months), and I want to do my part to make sure that our native sons & daughters are not forgotten.  I will be posting, sometime before Veteran's Day I hope, a listing of all those who have died in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom that are from the Rochester area.  If you have names of friends or relatives you would like to add send me an e-mail to oneofthewome@gmail.com. 
Before I say anymore, this post is not about how I feel about the war!! 

This is about honoring the men and woman who gave the ultimate sacrafice so that you and I can bit@# about it and the state of our govenment, each other, the world... WHATEVER!
It is about remembering that they were someone's child, parent, spouse or friend,
and a beloved child of God.
These men and women, and all of those who served before them and with them, deserve our respect, our prayers and our never ending gratitude for their service to our country.  Please honor them by not making this political.


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Army Pfc. Daniel J. Rivera, 22 of Rochester, NY, died October 18, 2009 in Mosul, Iraq.


Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon him.
May he rest in peace.

Peace to All!