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Good story!
Only two people have offered to sacrifice their lives for us, Jesus Christ and Veterans.
I received some bad news on sunday.
A friend of mines sister was killed in Afganistan last thursday.
There is an article about it in the last few days issues of The Boston Herald.
Her name was Ciara (Prounounced "Kee-rah") Durkin.
She was with the 726th Battalian Mass National Guard.
She was born in Ireland and came to the U.S. in 1986.
They don't know the circumstances but she was shot in the head.
She was 29.
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1035495
"The family has been informed that she was in the compound, and she was shot in the head," Canavan told the newspaper. "She was in a secure area of the compound, which, even though the investigation is not complete, leads the family to believe it was what is called friendly fire,"
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2007/10/02/mystery_surrounds_death_of_soldier/
The Massachusetts National Guard soldier from Quincy who died in Afghanistan Friday was found with a single bullet in her head lying near her church on a secure military base, her family said yesterday after a briefing from Army officials.
The Department of Defense said in a statement yesterday that Ciara Durkin's injuries came from a "non-combat related incident" that is under investigation. The statement contradicts a Sunday statement from the Massachusetts Army National Guard that said Durkin, an Army specialist, was killed in action. A guard spokesman said the term was meant to imply that Durkin was deployed in Afghanistan at the time of her death.
"We're completely in the dark," said Pierce Durkin, the soldier's 28-year-old brother. "Patience is probably dissipating."
Family members, who are pushing for more information from Army officials, are girding for the possibility that Ciara (pronounced Kee-ra) Durkin was killed by a fellow service member, intentionally or accidentally, at the Bagram Airfield. They said they are confident that she did not commit suicide.
"The family has been going over this several times," Pierce Durkin said. "There is nothing to indicate that it could have possibly been self-inflicted."
The unusual case is drawing intense interest from Ireland, where Durkin, 30, and most of her family were born and where three siblings live. Her family is appealing to the Irish government, in addition to American congressmen, for additional help in clearing up the details of her death. A US Central Command spokesman in Afghanistan, reached by telephone yesterday, did not provide further details to a reporter.
Pierce Durkin said his family is hoping that the military will "speed up and that they will deliver a very thorough and very honest and very fact-based and sincere report."
Inconsistent stories surrounding the injury to Army Private Jessica Lynch and the death of former professional football player-turned-Army Ranger Pat Tillman have increased the family's skepticism, Durkin said.
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