Roll Call

Gone, but not forgotten:

2LT Tom Witt - Fort Hood, Texas, April 1995
CW2 Aaron Weaver - near Fallujah, al-Anbar governorate, Iraq, January 2004
SFC Don Eacho - Ramadi, al-Anbar governorate, Iraq, March 2005
CW4 Matt Lourey - Buhriz, Diyala governorate, Iraq, May 2005
MAJ Matt Worrell - Yusufiyah, Baghdad governorate, Iraq, May 2006
CW4 Bill Engeman - Baghdad, Baghdad governorate, Iraq, May 2006
SGT Jason Swiger - Baqubah, Diyala governorate, Iraq, March 2007
CPT Jon Grassbaugh - Zaganiyah, Diyala governorate, Iraq, April 2007
SGT Eric Holke - Tallil, Dhi Qar governorate, Iraq, July 2007
SFC Gary Vasquez - Yakchal, Helmand province, Afghanistan, September 2008
MAJ Brian Mescall - Qalat, Zabul province, Afghanistan, January 2009
CW4 Niall Lyons - Darreh-ye Bum, Baghdis province, Afghanistan, October 2009
CPT Dan Whitten - near Forward Operating Base Sweeney, Zabul province, Afghanistan, February 2010
LTC Rob Baldwin - Ayatalah, Zabul province, Afghanistan, September 2010

And while I've posted this one before, it warrants repetition:

If you are able, save for them a place inside of you
and save one backward glance when you are leaving
for the places they can no longer go.

Be not ashamed to say you loved them,
though you may or may not have always.
Take what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own.

And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.

MAJ Michael Davis O'Donnell, "Remember Them"
1 January 1970, Dak To, Vietnam