As of April 5th, 2008

Date Name Cause of Death

04/03/08 Griffin, Travis L. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/31/08 Dhanoolal, Dayne D. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/30/08 Gilmore, Terrell W. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/29/08 Jordan, Jevon K. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/30/08 Hall, William G. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/29/08 Bennett, Durrell L. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/29/08 Miller, Patrick J. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/28/08 Jankowski, Charles A. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/27/08 Molina, Joshua A. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/26/08 Candelo, Steven I. Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
03/26/08 Rundell, Gregory B. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
03/25/08 Gamboa, Joseph D. Hostile - hostile fire - indirect fire
03/23/08 Delgado, George Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/23/08 Hake, Christopher M. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/23/08 Hernandez, Jose A. Rubio Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/23/08 Habsieger, Andrew J. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/22/08 Ray, II, Thomas C. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/22/08 Williams, David B. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/22/08 Stelmat, David S. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
03/21/08 Smith, Tyler J. Hostile - hostile fire - indirect fire
03/19/08 Unruh, Gregory D. Non-hostile - vehicle rollover
3/17/2008 Elledge, Michael D. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
3/17/2008 Simpson, Christopher C. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
3/15/2008 Brown, Lerando J. Non-hostile
3/15/2008 O’Brien, William D. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
3/12/2008 Bradley, Juantrea T. Hostile - hostile fire - rocket attack
3/12/2008 Jackson, Dustin C. Hostile - hostile fire - rocket attack
3/12/2008 Samten, Tenzin L. Hostile - hostile fire - rocket attack
3/11/2008 West, Laurent J. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
3/10/2008 Anderson, Phillip R. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
3/10/2008 Burkett, Donald A. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
3/10/2008 Mallard, Torre R. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
3/10/2008 Suzch, Shawn M. Hostile - hostile fire - suicide bomber
3/10/2008 Cimarrusti, Ernesto G. Hostile - hostile fire - suicide bomber
3/10/2008 Julian, David D. Hostile - hostile fire - suicide bomber
3/10/2008 McDavid, Robert T. Hostile - hostile fire - suicide bomber
3/10/2008 McIntosh, Scott A. Hostile - hostile fire - suicide bomber
3/7/2008 Paniagua-Morales, Jose A. Hostile - hostile fire - explosion
3/4/2008 Frost, Christopher S. Non-hostile - helicopter crash
2/25/2008 Mowl, Kevin S. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/24/2008 Perez, Orlando A. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
2/24/2008 Phillips, Micheal E. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/22/2008 Morgan, Keisha M. Non-hostile - illness
2/21/2008 Weaver, Drew W. Hostile - hostile fire
2/20/2008 Raudenbush, Nathan R. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/20/2008 Mackey, Bryant W. Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
2/20/2008 Alvarez, Conrad Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/20/2008 Bitton, Albert Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/20/2008 Matlock, Jr., Micheal B. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/17/2008 Runyan, Luke S. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
2/17/2008 Groepper, Chad D. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
2/14/2008 Washington, Javares J. Non-hostile - vehicle accident
2/10/2008 Spates, Corey E. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/8/2008 Sweet, Jack T. Hostile - hostile fire - explosion
2/8/2008 Manibog, Michael T. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/8/2008 Martin, Timothy P. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/8/2008 Whisenhunt, Jerald A. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/8/2008 Willett, Gary D. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/7/2008 Souffront, Luis A. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/6/2008 Skelton, Bradley J. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/5/2008 Van Orman, Timothy R. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/5/2008 Osmolski, John C. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/5/2008 Baez, Miguel A. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/5/2008 Alicearivera, Rafael Non-hostile - drowning
2/4/2008 West, Christopher J. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
2/4/2008 Hardy, Nathan H. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
2/4/2008 Koch, Michael E. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
2/2/2008 Barrett, Chad A. Non-hostile
1/31/2008 Straughter, Matthew F. Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
1/31/2008 Schultz, David E. Hostile - hostile fire - indirect fire
1/31/2008 Norman, Michael A. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/28/2008 Craig, James E. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/28/2008 Jeffries, Gary W. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/28/2008 Marshall, Evan A. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/28/2008 Meyer, Brandon A. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/28/2008 Young, Joshua A. R. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/27/2008 Miller, Mikeal W. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/27/2008 Rogers, Alan G. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/26/2008 Wilson, Robert J. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/25/2008 Crookston, Duncan Charles Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/25/2008 Birkman, Tracy Renee Non-hostile - injury
1/22/2008 Sturdivant, Michael R. Non-hostile - vehicle accident
1/19/2008 Whiting, Justin R. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/19/2008 Gluff, James M. Hostile - hostile fire
1/19/2008 Burress, Richard B. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/19/2008 Schoolcraft III, Jon M. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/16/2008 Kimme, Danny L. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire, grenade
1/16/2008 Sharrett II, David H. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire, grenade
1/16/2008 Sigsbee, John P. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire, grenade
1/12/2008 Lloyd, Keith E. Hostile - hostile fire - IED
1/11/2008 Christensen Jr., Curtis A. Non-hostile
1/9/2008 Davis, Todd E. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)
1/9/2008 Gaul, Sean M. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)
1/9/2008 Sanders, Christopher A. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)
1/9/2008 Pionk, Matthew I. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)
1/9/2008 Dozier, Jonathan Kilian Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)
1/9/2008 McBride, Zachary W. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)
1/9/2008 Hart, David J. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
1/9/2008 Merlo, Ivan E. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
1/9/2008 Pannier, Phillip J. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
1/7/2008 Hanson, Timothy R. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
1/6/2008 Gudridge, James D. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/5/2008 Lemke, Jason F. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
1/4/2008 Brown, Menelek M. Non-hostile - drowning
1/3/2008 Olmsted, Andrew J. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
1/3/2008 Casey, Thomas J. Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
1/2/2008 Maseth, Ryan D. Non-hostile
1/2/2008 Anderson, Joshua R. Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

We recently received the following email. The woman who sent it, Jodi, is writing a tribute to SGT Mike Stokely. She has been in contact with his father and the following is part of their communication. I hope it touches you as much as it has touched us.

We often hear this term: Freedom isn’t Free. But, what does that really mean and if Freedom isn’t Free, then what is the cost and who pays it?

The cost is watching someone you love go away for a long period of time where there is little contact as they endure the rigors and hardships of training.

The cost is watching someone you love serve for pay that doesn’t always cover what it takes to live a standard of living most civilians enjoy and suffering a financial impact that can negatively alter a military family’s prosperity for a lifetime.

The cost is deployment to combat and the hardships of a soldier far from home while in a hostile place.

The cost is a loved one leaving whole but coming home less than whole, physically, mentally or both.

The cost is a a loved one who never returns from a mission and is never found.

The cost is having to take another’s life, even if they are the enemy, and living with that the rest of your life.

The cost is watching a close friend die, maybe even holding them in your arms, help less to save them and living a life of remembering that moment and feeling guilty that it wasn’t you who died instead of the close friend.

The cost is a family waiting and watching 24 / 7, hoping and praying as they watch daily newscasts about our military personnel dying.

The cost is a knock at the door no family wants but is a special privilege of sacrifice and if not borne by some, then who would bear it?

The cost is family trees altered for all time to come.

The cost is a lifetime of love.

Freedom isn’t Free and the cost is high.

The Fourth of July is a special time to celebrate the freedoms we have, hard fought and won at a great cost. Well we all should enjoy this day, and every day we have to live free, for to do less would be to waste the high price paid that we might.

Robert Stokely

proudly remembering my son, SGT Mike Stokely
KIA 16 Aug 05 near Yusufiyah in the Triangle of Death south of Baghdad
US Army E Troop 108 CAV 48th BCT GAARNG

Please think on this father’s words as you celebrate your freedom this July 4th.

To be completely honest, this is a very difficult tribute blog to run.

At it’s inception, the three women who began this blog could not have imagined how many more names would have to be added to this list of casualties. I, Lauren, personally didn’t think that almost a year after I typed the first name there would be hundreds yet to add.

We took a break. I think we all needed it.

It’s been many months and it seems time to make a come back. To continue to honor those who didn’t take a break, those who continue to protect and serve no matter how hard it gets.

I’m looking for a few people who wish to help out in this endeavor. I’m going to make a few changes in the way it’s run in order to make things a little easier. If you’re interested in joining the administration team, please email me. You’ll find the email address in the sidebar.

If you would like to write a tribute for your blog, just go ahead and write one. Pick out a name of a soldier on the list, google his name or search the links listed in the sidebar for information about him/her. When you have published the post email us with the full link to that particular post. Once we receive it we will link the soldier’s name to your post and email you the code for the graphic. Hopefully this will streamline things.

Starting next week we will begin adding names to the list again. We will also try to catch up on all those emails.

Thank you for all your patience.

Great!

We think it’s an absolutely wonderful idea that you support this blog by placing our graphic in the sidebar of your blog. It’s such a great idea that we’ve decided to place the code here. This way, you don’t even have to ask us for it. Now how easy is that?

Code:

<center><a href="http://some-gave-all.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s101/blogusage/
SomeGaveAllButton.jpg" border="0" alt="
Some Gave All Tribute Blog"></a></center>

It should look like this when you are done:

By the way, THANK YOU!

I was reminded how much of a difference when I opened this email a few days ago.

Dear “Some gave all” bloggers,

I was just looking for recent articles about my late husband, SGT William (Bill) Meeuwsen and I came upon your blog! I can not tell you how touched and honored I feel by your kindness and gratitude towards my husband (his sacrifice) and our military! God Bless you and your hearts!! I was starting to feel discouraged because it’s coming up on a year since his passing and although I know grateful Americans won’t forget him, I needed to see him being remembered! So thank you for bringing hope back into my life! If you wouldn’t mind, I recently made a memorial website for Bill and I’m trying to get exposure out about it. Please visit when you have time, it would mean a lot to me! THANK YOU!

Here’s the link: http://william-meeuwsen-a-true-hero.memory-of.com
May God be with you wonderful Christian bloggers, our troops, their families and our country!

Sincerely,
Lauren Meeuwsen
Wife of SGT William B. Meeuwsen, KIA 11/23/05, Iraq

I asked Lauren if I could reprint her email here because it touched me so deeply. I also saw this as an opportunity to give her husband’s memorial page the exposure it deserves.

Won’t you please click the link above and show your appreciation to Sgt. Meeuwsen’s wife for her incredible sacrifice.

If you haven’t already offered, we are still in need of volunteers to write tributes to many soldiers. In all honesty, it’s very least we can do for them and as you can see it does make a difference.

When I read the below posting, tears filled my eyes. Heartfelt encouragement these days is like warm chocolate chip cookies and a glass of cool milk to my soul. On a particularly rough day, it works like an oxygen mask!

I never thought my husband would go to war. I never thought he’d see violence. I never thought I’d stand by him as he tries to process the deaths of fellow soldiers. I never thought I’d face widows and mothers at wakes who are complete strangers but mean so very much to me. I never fully realized that the path to freedom is paved with many, many graves. Graves that hold the bodies of fathers, sons, wives and men who aren’t even old enough to legally be trusted to drink beer (not that I’m for lowering the drinking age…just puts their age in perspective).

My husband’s batallion has had three deaths since setting foot in Iraq in March. Last week a 19 year-old soldier, Kyle Miller, sacrificed his life for our country’s call. The story, when it first broke in the news, ran at the bottom of the local section. Today, a small headline for a follow-up story ran under an article covering the GI alleged rapes. Having professional journalism experience, I can tell you that the placement of these stories greatly unsettles me. I can appreciate the fact that newspapers are consumer driven; but I also wish they would take a stand in our communities to give these men (and women) the honor they deserve when they die for us. It might not seem like a big deal to you today. But when a soldier dies, I stand firm to the belief that everything tied to that soldier’s name should appear with the utmost dignity and honor.

I applaud Jules, Lauren, GiBee, and Susie for their contributions, time, and effort on this blog site. They will never know the full significance of what they are doing. As a military wife, I’ve become painfully aware of how deeply these deaths mark our families, communities, and the lives of the other soldiers serving with the memorialized.

If you never live with the fear of seeing a government car pull up to your front curb, consider yourself very blessed. Likewise, as we live with people who are willing to help us carry the memorial torch for our loved ones, we are very blessed as well.

In His Love,
Emily, Proud wife of SSG Daniel Bari, 134 BSB Charlie Company, MN Army National Guard soldier serving in Iraq

This Independence Day we honor our own Blue Star Wife, Emily at Consider How the Lilies Grow. Her husband, Dan, is presently serving in Iraq, and Emily is keeping vigil at home. We love you Emily. We cannot thank you enough for your personal sacrifice. Our prayers go up asking for God’s Mighty Hand of protection for Dan.

It is our goal to remember each and every American soldier, sailor, airman or marine who has given their life for the cause of freedom since September 11, 2001 with a personal tribute.

Each one. By name. If you’d like to aid us in this effort, simply contact us using the email link to the right and you will be given the name of an American hero. We ask that you memorialize that individual with a tribute on your blog and that you place the Some Gave All button on your home page to let others know that you remember. We ask that your blog be free of profanity, and that it be family-friendly, as this tribute is designed to honor the men and women of our Armed Forces and their families.

We respectfully ask that your tribute be courteous, respectful and free from any political views. Propaganda will not be allowed. A tribute may look something like this:

“As an American citizen I thank you, (soldier’s name here) for your courage and your sacrifice. I thank your family for all they have given for the cause of freedom. I will remember you, and I will teach my children to remember you. We are forever in your debt.”

You may contact us for more details.