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    Irish veteran of US army in Iraq dies in Boston

    An Irishman who was injured as three of his colleagues were blown up by a bomb in Iraq in 2003, while he was serving with the US army, has died in Boston.

    Bernard Shevlin (43) was from Castleblayney, Co Monaghan. He was also a former policeman in the US.

    Following his police career, he joined the American army and served as a major with the US forces in Iraq.

    He retired following a severe injury received while on duty in Iraq in 2003. He was with a military transport unit, towing a heavy anti-tank gun along the ruins of a war- torn suburb, when three security personnel were killed in a bomb blast.

    He is survived by his wife, a son and two daughters, five brothers and two sisters.


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    Rip
    "He is an enemy officer taken in battle and entitled to fair treatment."
    "No, sir. He's a sergeant, and they don't deserve no respect at all, sir. I should know. They're cunning and artful, if they're any good. I wouldn't mind if he was an officer, sir. But sergeants are clever."

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    • #3
      Rest In Peace.

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      • #4
        Rest in peace.
        'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
        'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
        Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
        He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
        http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html

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        • #5
          Rip

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          • #6
            Rest in Peace
            Last edited by trellheim; 16 January 2012, 10:48.

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            • #7
              May he + Rest In Peace +

              Sympathy & Condolences to his Family, Friends & Comrades.

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              • #8
                RIP

                Gentlemen, your signatures.
                "It is a general popular error to imagine that loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for it's welfare" Edmund Burke

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                • #9
                  Rest in Peace.
                  "We will hold out until our last bullet is spent. Could do with some whiskey"
                  Radio transmission, siege of Jadotville DR Congo. September 1961.
                  Illegitimi non carborundum

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                  • #10
                    Rip
                    Bohs till I die

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                    • #11
                      May he rest in peace
                      Cry "havoc!", and let slip the dogs of war!

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