Honor and duty for his fallen son
- added April 26, 2008
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- jcwelker
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A pot of coffee brews inside the one-story home on Seth Dvorin Lane, as the father of a dead American soldier salutes his son's picture, and sets out to keep his memory alive another day.
His one-level weathered home sits on a street named after Army 2nd Lt. Seth Dvorin, 24, killed by a roadside bomb near Iskandariyah, Iraq, on Feb. 3, 2004. Seth liked playing basketball, traveling to places like Europe and Israel, flying remote-controlled helicopters and driving Mustang cars, says his father, Richard Dvorin, a refrigerator of a man, before he breaks into tears for the fifth time this afternoon.
Dvorin, 65, knows his son's story sounds like one you've heard before. He knows you probably don't care to read about another dead soldier.
He wants you to pay attention anyway.
"People are becoming callous toward the war," he says. "There are things more important today, like the presidential race. . . . Whether we lose the first soldier in the battle or the last soldier in the battle, that soldier is important to all of America."
Seth was somewhere between the 526th and 529th soldier killed in Iraq, Dvorin believes. When the 4,000th soldier killed in Iraq became a milestone last month, Dvorin wept watching the 24-hour news coverage. He knows the deaths of most U.S. soldiers slip by without widespread attention. Since then, about 50 more have been killed in Iraq.
His one-level weathered home sits on a street named after Army 2nd Lt. Seth Dvorin, 24, killed by a roadside bomb near Iskandariyah, Iraq, on Feb. 3, 2004. Seth liked playing basketball, traveling to places like Europe and Israel, flying remote-controlled helicopters and driving Mustang cars, says his father, Richard Dvorin, a refrigerator of a man, before he breaks into tears for the fifth time this afternoon.
Dvorin, 65, knows his son's story sounds like one you've heard before. He knows you probably don't care to read about another dead soldier.
He wants you to pay attention anyway.
"People are becoming callous toward the war," he says. "There are things more important today, like the presidential race. . . . Whether we lose the first soldier in the battle or the last soldier in the battle, that soldier is important to all of America."
Seth was somewhere between the 526th and 529th soldier killed in Iraq, Dvorin believes. When the 4,000th soldier killed in Iraq became a milestone last month, Dvorin wept watching the 24-hour news coverage. He knows the deaths of most U.S. soldiers slip by without widespread attention. Since then, about 50 more have been killed in Iraq.
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4000 plus tragedies and counting with no end in sight as we read elsewhere about plans to start another war.
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You cant really say anything to this. It speaks for itself
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This is something everyone thinking about voting in this year's election should read.
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- ashabpatel
- 2 months ago
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i feel for the man, the lost of a child seems unthinkable,
how you cope with that i can not imagine.
the states should start to listen to the families of the soldiers.
the war is going to go on as long as the people of the states bury there heads in the sand and keep getting mis-information about the troubles from the media
I hope and so do many, that the wars in IRAQ and AFGANISTAN end soon -
Hey I hate the war too but I don’t think its so simple as us just packing our stuff and leaving. When America helped overthrow a democratically elected administration in Iran we left them with a crappy dictatorship that was eventually overthrown. Now in Iraq and Afghanistan we overthrew an oppressive regime and all we got from it is a weak democracy that at this point won’t survive without our help. If we turn our backs now those anti-western organization are just going to fill the void just like they did in Iran. If Americans want to prove itself better than the flawed doctrine of the Bush administration we’re going to have to do something better than just walk away denouncing bush and championing our reason.
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This highlights one of the best Current TV segments.
My parents had never heard of Current, but when I was visiting their house, I turned it on. The Current Remembers pod came on and my Dad got choked up. My Mom was silent. They were touched.
He lost a lot of friends in Vietnam, he lucked out in the National Guard. He still thinks about all his childhood friends, gone.
I know several people serving in all the branches of the military, I can only hope this war will end soon. -
every soldier should be remembered and you dont see too many off them in the media.
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