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July 4th: Remembering Staff Sergeant Patrick Hamburger, Extortion 17
2017-07-04
[Victory Girls] Celebrate Fourth of July, this year, as the Founding Fathers intended it to be celebrated. As you celebrate the day, remember Staff Sergeant Patrick Hamburger who died with 37 other military personnel aboard Extortion 17. Now I know you are thinking, "Hello, we just did Memorial Day." Stay with me on this train of thought for just a minute and you will see why it makes so much sense.

Our Founding Fathers (Sorry to be sexist but, there it is.) were extraordinary ordinary men. Men who were called on to stand up and stand out. We have been blessed that every succeeding generation has found us a few of these extraordinary ordinary men.
Posted by:Besoeker

#2  I had to look this up. I don't recall this from back then, thanks mostly to our MSM wonderful coverages.

Extortion 17

On 6 August 2011, a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter, Call Sign "Extortion 17," was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan.[6][7] The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board—25 American special operations personnel, five United States Army National Guard and Army Reserve crewmen, seven Afghan commandos, and one Afghan interpreter—as well as a U.S. military working dog.[8][9][10][11] It is considered the worst loss of American lives in a single incident in the Afghanistan campaign, surpassing Operation Red Wings in 2005.

More at link above.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance   2017-07-04 10:16  

#1  Thank you Besoeker for this post. It is the extraordinary such as SSG Hamburger as well as the ordinary men and women of this country who make it great. Thanks to them.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-07-04 10:10  

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