Shaffer
04-03-03, 03:25 PM
The letters arrived regularly from Marine Cpl. Randy Rosacker.
Some were homemade postcards, fashioned from empty containers of prepackaged food. Others were longer, private thoughts from a son in Kuwait to a family awaiting his return.
They were his last words. The 21-year-old from San Diego was killed March 23 in an ambush near Nasiriyah, Iraq.
For some, the last letters of those killed in the war have become a source of comfort, full of words of love, gratitude and reflection. For others, they are mementos to be shared years from now when small children have grown or when somebody asks about a son or daughter lost in battle.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/memorial/20030401-1117-ca-war-lastletters.html
Some were homemade postcards, fashioned from empty containers of prepackaged food. Others were longer, private thoughts from a son in Kuwait to a family awaiting his return.
They were his last words. The 21-year-old from San Diego was killed March 23 in an ambush near Nasiriyah, Iraq.
For some, the last letters of those killed in the war have become a source of comfort, full of words of love, gratitude and reflection. For others, they are mementos to be shared years from now when small children have grown or when somebody asks about a son or daughter lost in battle.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/memorial/20030401-1117-ca-war-lastletters.html