SEARCH BLOG: AFGHANISTAN
The war without purpose: Afghanistan.
The subject of the unnecessary and useless U.S. involvement in Afghanistan has been raised for several years in this blog. We are sending our young, strong, smart sons and daughters to a land of corruption and antipathy toward our country and culture. We have no plan for our involvement, no reason for staying there other than the fact we went there in the first place to kill a few terrorists who are often indistinguishable from those who are presently ruling and their minions. Afghanistan soldiers seem to think it is a sport to kill their U.S. allies while our President and his commanders are more interested in public relations and making sure our soldiers are put in harms way without putting those they are fighting or the sympathizers of those they are fighting into harms way. Soldiers die because of "rules of engagement."
Now this:
A 25-year-old Army soldier and 2005 Rochester High School graduate has been killed during combat operations in Afghanistan.
The Defense Department says today that Spc. Kyle McClain of Shelby Township died Aug. 1, in Salim Aka, Afghanistan.
His mother, Geraldine McClain said the combat engineer had been in Afghanistan for about six weeks after tours in Korea and Iraq. They were clearing roadways of IEDs when he was killed, she said.
“They had to get out of the vehicles and had to do foot search and that’s when he met the IED,” his mother said. “That’s the part of the story that’s hard to tell. But he is a hero to us.”
McClain was assigned to 1433rd Engineer Company, 507th Engineer Battalion, 177th Military Police Brigade in Kalamazoo.
Adopted from Korea, McClain spent his first year of service in the country.
“He was a gift to us; all through his 25 years has presented himself as a wonderful treasure,” his mother said, adding that the tour of Korea cemented his dedication to his home country. “He said he was so glad to be an American and there was no finer place to be than America.”
McClain attended Rochester Community Schools from Kindergarten, and he was part of the Falcon drum line in Rochester High Schools’ marching band. He and his wife, Lisa Morgan, who he met at Rochester High, were married in October 2010 and lived in Shelby Township.
After graduating from Rochester High, he attended two years of college, majoring in engineering at Ferris State University before joining the Army.
McClain enjoyed hunting and fishing with his father, Michael, and friends. He’s also survived by a sister, Kristyn, 33, his mother said. [source]
I knew this young man although not as well as some members of my family. His father helped me build our house. Kyle was always there to help his family and friends and was universally liked and respected. He was a model person and citizen. His death is another loss in the tragedy of this generation.
We have a niece who is about to go to that hellhole. She is young, strong, and smart and we can only pray that she returns safely.
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