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Title: California family loses second son in Iraq war
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www.registerguard.com
URL Source: http://www.registerguard.com/news/2 ... 26.p1.php?section=nation_world
Published: Aug 26, 2007
Author: Lisa Leff
Post Date: 2007-08-26 23:50:41 by Ferret Mike
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Views: 298
Comments: 11
CLOVIS, Calif. - Early in the Iraq war, Jeff and Peggy Hubbard faced the news that every parent with a child at war dreads, the death of their son Jared, a Marine killed alongside his best friend. Two years, nine months and 18 days later, they faced another grim-faced officer. This time, it was their youngest, Army Cpl. Nathan Hubbard, 21, dead in a helicopter crash in Iraq. A third brother, Jason, was on another helicopter in the same unit and was at the crash site. He accompanied his brother's body on a flight out of Iraq and was on his way home for the funeral. The family has been told that, if he requests it, Jason Hubbard will be discharged or given a noncombat assignment under an Army policy governing sole surviving siblings and children of soldiers killed in combat, said Tim Rolen, a family friend and pastor who co-presided at Jared Hubbard's funeral on Veteran's Day 2004. "In all of our minds we have an order of the way things go. The death of a child is out of order. You now have a family that has lost two," Rolen said. "One doesn't prepare you for another one." Nathan was barely out of high school when a roadside bomb killed Jared and Jared's best friend. Nathan tattooed his brother's initials on his arm, described him as his hero and enlisted to pick up where his big brother left off. With a yearlong tour of duty almost behind him, he was making plans to meet his buddies in Hawaii, where he was stationed, when the Black Hawk helicopter carrying him and 13 other soldiers had mechanical problems and crashed during a night flight. There were no survivors. Jason Hubbard, 33, had resigned as a Fresno County sheriff's deputy to join the Army at the same time Nathan did. At their request, the two were assigned to the same unit, the 3rd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division based on Oahu. Jason was riding in another helicopter when the Black Hawk went down. He told his wife by telephone that he was part of the crew assigned to search the wreckage, according to Rolen. He accompanied Nathan's body on a military aircraft from Iraq to Kuwait, then on to California. Flags were lowered to half-staff outside homes, stores and municipal buildings Friday all over Clovis, a city of 90,000 next to Fresno. For many people in the town, the Hubbard family's tragedy elicited echoes from two movies: "Saving Private Ryan," which depicted the search for a paratrooper whose three brothers have already died in World War II, and "Legends of the Fall" - one of Nathan Hubbard's favorite films - about the death of the youngest of three Montana brothers who went off to battle during World War I. The military does not track families with more than one child serving in Iraq or cases in which casualties have resulted in a service member's discharge or change in combat status, said Lt. Jonathan Withington, a Department of Defense spokesman. Buchanan High Principal Don Ulrich remembered Nathan Hubbard, a 2004 graduate, as a happy-go-lucky student and junior varsity wrestler who made friends easily. Counselors sent to the school Thursday were mostly visited by teachers and staff members who remembered the deaths of 2001 graduates Jared Hubbard and his friend, Jeremiah Baro. "It is very difficult to comprehend the loss this Buchanan family has endured. All we can do is support Nathan and his brothers' commitment to serving their country and keep the family in our prayers," Ulrich said. The Hubbards - who also have a daughter, Heidi, 31 - asked for privacy. Jeff Hubbard is a retired Clovis police officer, and a uniformed officer was posted outside their door. In an interview with The Fresno Bee shortly before he left for basic training in 2005, Nathan Hubbard said he knew the dangers but did not worry about dying. "My brother - my parents' son - will always be in our hearts, and we'll always remember him and we'll always think of him and all that, but we've got to move on, and that's what we are doing," he said. Nathan is to be buried late this coming week with full military honors at Clovis Cemetery, where his brother and friend Jeremiah Baro were buried side by side. 
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#1. To: Ferret Mike, Cynicom (#0)
and the cupboard was bare
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Once I read about a ranking of stresses in life and evidently the worst ordeal is to survive one's own children - Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard are trying to cope with 2X the ordeal. God help them.
Well, one way to solve this problem is to put in the draft and make parents eligible. Let's see these nazi jerks vote when THEY might have to fight. I have no pity for this jerk. Why wasn't HE fighting instead of brainwashing his kids into doing it for him?
I have a better idea. Start a universal draft, everyone over 18 gets a number, and then pull the numbers based upon total net worth. The richer you are or the richer your family is, the higher your number. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett go first. Then watch as the US becomes the most pacifist nation on the planet.
#2. To: robin (#1)
and the cupboard was bare
#3. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
#4. To: Mekons4 (#3)
Well, one way to solve this problem is to put in the draft and make parents eligible.
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#5. To: Elliott Jackalope (#4)
You're right. That is a better idea.
I have a better idea. Start a universal draft, everyone over 18 gets a number, and then pull the numbers based upon total net worth. The richer you are or the richer your family is, the higher your number. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett go first. Then watch as the US becomes the most pacifist nation on the planet.
#6. To: Elliott Jackalope (#4)
Frankly I believe everyone from ages 18-48 should get drafted - why not? A fat assed menopausal female would be a ferocious fighter and she'd be a good tank driver what with all the experience she received while driving an ugly gas guzzling Suburban ferrying the family dog to and from Walmart.
I have a better idea. Start a universal draft, everyone over 18 gets a number, and then pull the numbers based upon total net worth.
#7. To: scrapper2 (#6)
Great minds think alike.
#8. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
This makes me ill. Anyone who tries to institute a draft will be met with LEAD>
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#9. To: Elliott Jackalope (#4)
Hmmm...an intriguing idea!
and then pull the numbers based upon total net worth. The richer you are or the richer your family is, the higher your number.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#10. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
not a good deal.
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#11. To: scrapper2 (#6)
I once read an article that argued that middle-aged men, who have already contributed to the gene pool, and are facing mid-life crisis should be drafted.
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