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kyburgCpl. Kenny F. Stanton Jr., 20, was killed in Baghdad on Oct. 13, when a bomb exploded near his vehicle. He was the third graduate of Hemet High School killed in Iraq, and his death came in one of the bloodiest months since the war began.
"The Plague that Hit Hemet," one of Stanton's acquaintances called it in an entry on the fallen soldier's MySpace website.
Hemet is a pathetically small place. When I was born, it had less than 12,000 people living in it. We wouldn't even get a McDonalds until I was in high school.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ceolyn's grandmother knew me as my father's daughter at her wedding - yes, the town is that damn small. (Dad's been dead since 1967.)
I went back and looked at my high school yearbooks. Yeah, the name did sound familiar.
There are three Stantons in them. The ages make sense too.
This fucking fraud of a conflict is killing the children of people I went to high school with.
Leave no child behind, either. Go take a gander.
Pro-life, my ass.
(And livid hardly covers it. Just in case you hadn't guessed.)
"The Plague that Hit Hemet," one of Stanton's acquaintances called it in an entry on the fallen soldier's MySpace website.
Hemet is a pathetically small place. When I was born, it had less than 12,000 people living in it. We wouldn't even get a McDonalds until I was in high school.
ceolyn's grandmother knew me as my father's daughter at her wedding - yes, the town is that damn small. (Dad's been dead since 1967.)I went back and looked at my high school yearbooks. Yeah, the name did sound familiar.
There are three Stantons in them. The ages make sense too.
This fucking fraud of a conflict is killing the children of people I went to high school with.
Leave no child behind, either. Go take a gander.
Pro-life, my ass.
(And livid hardly covers it. Just in case you hadn't guessed.)
