My sympathies to the family.

For the Challenger, I was in the motorpool of the 124th Signal Battalion, Fort Carson, CO. It had snowed that day.

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Oh, by the way, four soldiers died the other day when their helicopter went down in Afganistan while on a mission to protect us from future terrorism. I guess I must have missed the thread here where everyone was expressing their heartfelt sorrow for the loss of heros, or maybe no one here knew because it only got a few minutes news coverage instead of the parade of coverage the Columbia gets.

I guess they can't lower the flag to half-staff when soldiers die that way because it would rarely fly at full-staff at the rate service members make that sacrifice.
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Just want to keep things in perspective.