Staff Sgt. Matthew D. Blaskowski in summer 2007; he was killed on Sept. 23, 2007.From the New York Times:
Not long after Staff Sgt. Matthew D. Blaskowski was killed by a sniper’s bullet last Sept. 23 in eastern Afghanistan, his mother received an e-mail message with a link to a video on the Internet. A television reporter happened to have been filming a story at Sergeant Blaskowski’s small mountain outpost when it came under fire and the sergeant was shot.
Since then, Sergeant Blaskowski’s parents, Cheryl and Terry Blaskowski of Cheboygan, Mich., have watched their 27-year-old son die over and over. Ms. Blaskowski has taken breaks from work to watch it on her computer, sometimes several times a day, studying her son’s last movements.
“Anything to be closer,” she said. “To see what could have been different, how it — ” the bullet — “happened to find him.”
List Of Casualties: Afghanistan -- Operation Enduring Freedom
My Comment: Nato and U.S. casualties will easily surpass last years total. When the surge comes to Afghanistan from additional Nato and U.S. troops, expect this total to increase exponentially. The heavy fighting has not even started in Afghanistan yet.
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