Barack Obama
Bereaved parents have confronted the U.S. government on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which have claimed their precious children's lives. They want answers from the government for themselves and the nation, regarding the administration's plans for combat in the region, as they want it stopped. Obama certainly didn't start this mess, but he can finish it. Bring the troops back to America and Britain (Prime Minister Gordon Brown) to their families.
U.S. commanders in Afghanistan should have known situation, father says
updated 6:43 p.m. ET, Mon., Oct . 19, 2009 - WASHINGTON - Stationed at a remote, undermanned Army outpost in a dangerous patch of northeastern Afghanistan, Stephan Mace knew trouble was brewing. His father says U.S. military commanders should have known that the troops there "were sitting ducks."
Larry Mace's soldier son was buried Monday at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors, one of eight U.S. troops killed earlier this month in Kamdesh in northeast Afghanistan when several hundred militant fighters armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed Combat Outpost Keating.
The attack at Kamdesh, along with a similarly costly battle a year earlier in Wanat, have emerged as powerful symbols of the challenges the Obama administration faces as the war in Afghanistan enters its ninth year...
Mother's final duty to soldier son: Escort his body home
PURCELLVILLE, Virginia (CNN) -- When the Army flew home the body of Spc. Stephan Mace from Afghanistan, his mother climbed aboard a small jet with the flag-draped coffin for the last leg of his trip.
Vanessa Adelson escorted the body of her son, Stephan Mace, on the final leg of the journey from Afghanistan.
"I brought him into this world, and he was my baby," she said. "I thought it was my responsibility as a mother to bring him home."
Mace and seven other soldiers were killed this month in a Taliban attack on their remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan, making it the deadliest battle for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since July 2008...
A seven-member firing party launched three volleys, a bugler played "Taps," and a bagpiper played "Amazing Grace."...
