He has a name now.

We have a ID on our John Doe that I wrote about in my last post thanks the efforts of IronKnight. The person in question is Staff Sergeant José Pequeño.

When an insurgent pitched a grenade into his Humvee while he was reporting a suicide bomber, the explosion killed the driver and took the lower left two lobes from his brain. In the more than three years since he’s undergone a dozen and a half surgeries, his mother and sister have given up home, job, college, friends and all else to stay with him — and he has lived, despite his doctors’ predictions and expectations.

And why did he volunteer to go back again?

A US Marine Corps veteran and Army National Guardsman, Staff Sergeant José Pequeño returned to Iraq because he felt that would help some of his young Guardsmembers return home safely.

Also it should be noted the difference in writing between the two authors.

Tomorrow, take a moment to remember those who came home far from whole.
Whether you believe in the war or not, the men and women who wear the uniforms of the US Armed Forces — and especially those whose service has marked them as irrevocably physically as it has spiritually and psychically — deserve a moment’s remembrance.

Thank for that.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Military issues, Support the troops, Terror War