The Northwestern does a great job with this story:
“It sickens me that we are still fighting with other people and how many more lives does it need to be?” said Mary Bosveld. “Do we need to give all of our children away until we learn that there are other ways to solve conflicts?”
Bosveld’s daughter, Army Private First Class Rachel Bosveld, was the first woman from Wisconsin to die in Operation Iraqi Freedom. She attended Oshkosh West High School. Bosveld said Iraqi families have lost loved ones, too, and she doesn’t want that forgotten.
Ralph Beck, a veteran of the Vietnam War with the U.S. Marine Corps, said he was saddened.
“I think that every military loss is a tragedy,” said Beck of Oshkosh. “However, I think the biggest mistake that we could make now would be to abandon our commitment to the Iraqi people. When we left Vietnam the citizens of that country suffered greatly.”
Pete Wallace, father of Sgt. Andrew Wallace, a Wisconsin Army National Guard member from Oshkosh and killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, said his heart goes out to all the families who have lost loved ones in the war.“
I certainly don’t want to see anyone else go through that pain, sorrow and suffering,” Wallace said, “but I’m afraid there will be more deaths in the future.”
Oshkosh resident Rick Wing Sr., who served with the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War, said the war in Iraq had gone on longer than he thought it would.
“I just pray to God that it’s worth it,” Wing said, referring to the 2,000 U.S. military personnel, who have perished in the war.
Wing said the war in Iraq had been high in terms of cost and the number of lives it has taken.
“I thought they would have a game plan when the fighting ended, but now we’re in a quagmire just like Vietnam,” he said.
http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/news/local/stories/local_23132185.shtml
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