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To: jmhollen who wrote (592100)	7/18/2004 2:32:44 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It's only "realitively quiet" for the US forces. A large number of Iraqis are dying every day. And too many of ours, too.

To: jmhollen who wrote (592100)	7/18/2004 3:35:06 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

And, I'll bet your giant, economy-sized, CO2-powered, Super-Tube of Prep-H provides no comfort at all for all the relative "..quiet.." on the eastern front in the News.... And Americans keep getting killed or maimed by the thousands in Iraq and all you can do is make jokes. Do you care about anything but your own little and ugly world? November can't happen fast enough. ********************************************************* Former Chicagoan killed in road accident in Iraq** July 18, 2004 ASSOCIATED PRESS Advertisement MINNEAPOLIS-- A soldier from Minnesota died in Iraq when the vehicle he was in swerved to miss an oncoming truck and rolled over. Cpl. Demetrius Lamont Rice, 24, of Ortonville, Minn., died Wednesday in the rollover near Talafar, 45 miles from Mosul in northern Iraq, the Department of Defense said Friday. His vehicle went off the road and rolled down an embankment. Rice was the ninth Minnesota soldier killed in Iraq. Valorie Rice, Demetrius' mother, moved with her children to Minnesota from Chicago nearly 11 years ago in hopes of providing them with a better life. Rice's younger sister, Briana Rice, of Appleton, said her grandmother in suburban Chicago called her Wednesday with the news. "She just told me that he was gone," Briana Rice said. Rice joined the Army in April 2001 and was a member of the 2nd Infantry Division based in Fort Lewis, Wash., Army spokesman Sgt. Maj. J.C. Mathews said. Another soldier, Pfc. Jesse Martinez of Tracy, Calif., also died in the crash. They were assigned to the Stryker brigade combat team. Two other soldiers were injured. Rice and Martinez were inside a Stryker, the $2 million infantry carriers that are getting their first combat test in Iraq. The soldiers were on their way to help set up a traffic control point when the Stryker swerved to avoid the oncoming civilian fuel truck, said Lt. Col. Joseph Piek, the brigade spokesman. Rice attended Ortonville High School and was "a good kid," said principal Terry Rheingans. He said Rice was proud to be a soldier. suntimes.com