Posted: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Fort Lewis, Washington soldiers are likely among the eight US
troops killed today in Afghanistan. That’s according to the
Associated Press. October has now eclipsed August as the deadliest
month for American forces since the war started in 2001. Olympia
Correspondent Austin Jenkins has reaction from an Army spouse.
According to reports out of Afghanistan, two Army vehicles were
blown up in two different bomb attacks in the Southern part of the
country. Seven US soldiers and an Afghan civilian died in one attack.
The eighth soldier died in the second bomb blast. The 5th Stryker
Brigade from Ft. Lewis has been in Afghanistan since July and has
taken heavy casualties. The official death toll before these latest
bombings was 18. Jamie Warren’s husband is an Army medic
stationed in Afghanistan. She says every time the phone rings it
rattles her.
Warren: “You’re just jumpy because you just don’t know if it’s
going to be your husband calling or somebody else telling you that
it’s yet more bad news. It just stops your heart for a second.”
Warren says she got a text message from another Army wife saying
her husband is okay. Meanwhile Fort Lewis is preparing for two
more memorial services for soldiers killed in Afghanistan earlier this
month.
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