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| <Patriotic Photos
face="Cambria" color="#FFFFFF">August 28, 2006 | |
| 08/28/06... Thirteen service members who served in Iraq or Afghanistan meet with Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England before they begin their speaking tour across the country. The Why We Serve speaking tour is a program created to respond to the requests of the American people who invite returning veterans to participate in community events and a variety of public affairs activities.
August 25, 2006. (Defense Department photo) |
|  | 08/28/06 U.S. Navy Seaman Chris Helms, assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5), greets his newborn baby for the first time following the ship's return to Naval Station San Diego, Calif., Aug. 16, 2006. Peleliu and Amphibious Squadron Three are returning from a six-month deployment in support of the war on terror. DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Joseph Pol Sebastian Gocong, U.S. Navy. |
|  | 08/28/06 Lance Cpl. Timothy M. Walsh, a 21-year-old assaultman from Winchester, N.H., gathers with an Iraqi family after he gave an Iraqi boy a soccer ball during a patrol in Sadiquiyah, Iraq, Aug. 18, 2006. Walsh and other Marines assigned to I Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment conducted the patrol to show their presence within the community. U.S. Marine Corps photo by
Lance Cpl. Ray Lewis |
|  | 08/28/06... Hundreds of Marines, sailors and soldiers bow their heads in prayer during a memorial service for two Marines and a sailor from the Twentynine Palms, Calif.-based Company D, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, in Rawah, Iraq, Aug. 26, 2006. Cpl. Adam A. Galvez, a 21-year-old from Salt Lake City, Utah; Lance Cpl. Randy L. Newman, a 21-year-old from Bend, Ore., and Hospitalman Chadwick T. Kenyon, a 20-year-old from Tucson, Ariz., were all killed in action Aug. 20 in western Al Anbar Province. All three men were part of the battalion's Company D, which spent three months living out of their eight-wheeled, armored troop carriers – Light Armored Vehicles – combating insurgents and roadside bombs in Fallujah earlier this year. The deaths of the three men came on the heels of the deaths of four other Marines from the very same platoon within Company D. During all of their exploits in eastern Al Anbar Province, no one from Company D was killed. All six of the battalion's deaths occurred during combat operations in this region of western Al Anbar Province. “They were Dragoon's warriors. They were real warriors,” said 1st Sgt. Willie T. Ward III, of Galvez, Kenyon and Newman during the ceremony. “They were Wolf Pack. They were my brothers. I loved them.”
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Jim Goodwin) |
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