Iowa Woman Dead in Iraq

I don't know her. I don't know her family. God bless them.

Davenport woman killed in Iraq

DES MOINES - A 19-year-old Davenport woman was killed in an explosion in Iraq, family members said Thursday.

U.S. Army Pfc. Katie Soenksen, a 2005 graduate of Davenport North High School, was conducting a security mission Wednesday in Baghdad when her convoy was attacked, said her father Ronald Soenksen.

Lets take a moment from the story to point out that she graduated High School TWO YEARS after the war in Iraq began.

And still signed up.

Despite his loss, the father said he supports the mission in Iraq and never tried to
discourage his daughter from joining the Army.

“She was on a mission,” he said. “She wanted to go over there and keep (the war) on foreign soil. That was her main goal.”

To be so young and have that kind of attitude is incredible to me. As State29 points out, compare the reactions from the usual left-wing loonies over at the Des Moines Register version of the story in the comments section:

Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 6:43 pm -
And many more will follow her as long as the Bush administration continues to follow their insane policy of perpetual warfare in Iraq.

Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 7:13 pm -
The good news is, if there is a heaven and hell, Bush will be quite surprised to find himself amongst his "evil doers" in a very warm climate

Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 3:56 am -
So this illegal invasion based on lies and war profiteering made another victim. Who's counting? Bush certainly isn't. He's never attended one funeral. And what kind of an idiot thinks peace advocates should be hung? Maybe the kind of an idiot who loses his daughter in a totally unnecessary war and still supports it?

Atta way to "support the troops!"

I've been thinking. A lot of these young protesters...the kind that hold up their cute slogans and such...are probably just trying to overcome the depression they feel over their own lack of a future. These are directionless nobodys whose only way to quantify their own existence is to think of those who achieve or do something with their lives as stupid...just like they used to feel about "jocks" in their earlier years of high school.

The only way they seem to get noticed is to do something worthless like walk a few blocks holding a sign. Nobody pays much attention because their numbers certainly aren't growing (nor is Congress listening to them). More comments?

Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 4:28 am -
This father and his hero Bush have done everything to CUT my freedoms and civil liberties. Bush has been spying on Americans, terrorizing them and putting them in jail without lawyers or fair trials.

Katie, at 19, has done more by giving up her own life than anything most people are likely to experience. That makes me sad...and proud.

In a letter posted on a Department of Defense Web site, Katie Soenksen thanked Americans for supporting the troops and acknowledged the difficulty of leaving home.

“Being deployed is one of the hardest things to do,” according to the letter posted on www.americasupportsyou.mil . “But being here makes me realize how good we have it in America. Even though being over here is hard I'm glad I'm over here. - Just seeing how some of them are living just hurts me inside.”

An attitude like that carries more impact on other people's lives than any "work" these liberal arts degree job seeking malcontents will ever have. That's why they're so angry...

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