Associated Press:
The body of a 23-year-old Kenosha native arrived home this weekend after he was killed while serving his first tour of duty in Iraq.
Army Pfc. Timothy Hanson returned Saturday at the Kenosha Municipal Airport to a short ceremony of the United States Army Honor Guard with his mother Susan, father Robert and siblings Andrew and Jennifer.
Hanson was killed last week by enemy small-arms fire in Salmon Pak in southeast Baghdad, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. His family said he was shot in a tower while on nighttime guard duty.
We're closing in on 4,000 American military deaths in Iraq since we came rolling in in a cloud of dust. 3,923, at least. Apparently, no one knows the exact number. Add Pfc. Hanson's one to that and it doesn't seem like much. Just one more young man who'll never speak with his family and friends again. He'll never look out over that freshwater sea at the east of his city again. He's simply gone from our world, erased by a war in search of a reason for being...
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