Sad News from Iraq...

[cinmell]

I'm am so sorry for your tremendous loss. I will keep him and his family in my thoughts and prayers.

 

[Mamu]

My thoughts and prayers are with this young family. Such a tragic lose.

You hear it on the news daily about these mortar attacks and the lose of lives. But until it hits home it almost doesn't seem real. We go on with our daily lives, that are relatively safe. Yet so many of our brave young men and woman are away from their families fighting this war that over yet we continue to lose loved ones daily.

There is a deep sadness in my heart for this family and all the other families that have lost love ones.

 

[EdiePA]

As I told you last night, my heart goes out to you and to his family. Such a deep, sad loss for you, his family and all of his friends.

I hope the prayers and support of your DIS friends gives you some comfort!

Hugs and prayers for everyone,
Edie

 

[Pooh93]

 

[FloridaCat]

What a great loss and so sad. Prayers for his family and prayers mankind comes to it's senses.

 

[ead79]

Oh how terrible! My heart just breaks for his family and friends. My prayers are with them all.

 

[aunt lissa]

Susan....I'm so sincerely sorry for your loss. I will be saying prayers for you and your friends family as well as for Jesse!

 

[Danauk]

I am so sorry for your loss. You and your friends family are in my prayers.

 

[Big Dude]

Another one of my heroes. I will eventually post this on the In Memoriam thread but here is the information now:

Army Pfc. Jesse D. Mizener

1-7-2004

Army Pfc. Jesse D. Mizener, 24, of Auburn, Calif.; assigned to the 542nd Maintenance Company, 44th Corps Support Battalion, 593rd Corps Support Group, Fort Lewis, Wash.; killed in action when a mortar round hit the Logistics Base, Jan. 7 in Baghdad.

Here is a new article about Jesse:

Northern California soldier killed in Iraq

Associated Press


AUBURN, Calif. — A Northern California soldier died this week when a mortar round hit a Baghdad-area logistics base, officials said.
Pfc. Jesse D. Mizener, 24, died Jan. 7, the Department of Defense said.

In November, Mizener told The Auburn Journal newspaper that the mortar attacks were unsettling and all too common in Iraq.

“You miss home the most when you get mortared,” he told the newspaper. “It gets scary, especially when you see it land and see how close it is. That’s when you really think about home a lot.”

He is survived by his wife, Nicole, two daughters, ages 2 and 1, and a 2-month-old son, all of Auburn, Calif., about 35 miles east of Sacramento.

Mizener attended Bear Creek High School in Stockton, Calif., where his parents still live, said family spokeswoman Cindee DeGolia. The family declined to comment, but planned to hold a news conference in Stockton.

Mizener returned home in November in time for the birth of his son, his brother, Brian Mizener, told The Stockton Record newspaper. He was scheduled to come home for good soon, his brother said.

“We stopped worrying; his time was so short,” Brian Mizener told the newspaper.

Mizener, a construction equipment repairer, was assigned to the 542nd Maintenance Company, 44th Corps Support Battalion, 593rd Corps Support Group based at Fort Lewis.

His unit provides direct support and maintenance of Humvees, weapons, communications equipment and generators, said Brendalyn Carpenter, a spokeswoman for Fort Lewis.

During this deployment in Iraq, Mizener’s unit was attached to the 541st Maintenance Battalion, 3rd Corps Support Command, Carpenter said.

Adam