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Dane Carver

    
Thursday, December 29 2005 @ 08:11 AM EST
Contributed by: tomw
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Individuals USwww.wzzm13.com-- Freeport - 20 year old Dane Carver had six months left in his tour of duty in Iraq. His father says he wanted to come home to Freeport, marry his fiancé and take classes in auto mechanics.

He was killed by a sniper's bullet the day after Christmas.



"That's my boy," says Don Carver surrounded by photographs showing his son Dane performing various military duties. Don Carver says he knew his boy was facing danger and possible death, "My wife and I were talking about, you know, if your children go to war you're going to have to come to place where you know something could happen."

On the day after Christmas, the pentagon says 20 year old Army Specialist Fourth Class Dane Carver was on patrol in Iraq when he was shot and killed by enemy fire.

Don Carver had emailed with his son shortly before he was killed, "He had e-mailed me Christmas day said I can't wait to get back going to get some chow and he said we have to go make this patrol... They said that one it was a sniper bullet that hit him in the neck."

Dane Carver was a graduate of Thornapple-Kellogg High School. He went in the Army National Guard with several friends from his graduating class. During a visit home in October he told his dad he believed in his mission. "He said we feel good about it when we are over there and we see all the good things that are happening. He said we know we are doing the right thing."

Don Carver shared a personal conversation he had with his son, "He told me I want you to be proud of me and I am. He died honorably he died serving his country he died so other people could be free."

Funeral arrangements are still pending.
 
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Dane Carver
Authored by: anonymous on Saturday, December 31 2005 @ 01:59 PM EST
TO THE CARVER FAMILY; DANE THANK YOU FOR SERVING OUR COUNTRY. FOR BEING A MILITARY BROTHER TO OUR SON GREGORY, AS HE FELT YOU BEEN TO HIM. SADLY, IN WAR WE EXPERIENCE DIFFUCULT TIMES AS THIS. YOU HAVE NOT DIED IN VAIN! YOU ARE AN AMERICAN HERO! AMAZING STORY OF A MAN COMING FROM FREEPORT TO AN UNSELFISH WAR HERO! AN SADLY, WE RATHER YOU WITH US. AN NOW WE ARE DEALT WITH DEALING WITHOUT YOU. I LOST MY SON GREGORY. LOSING SOMEONE IS DIFFUCULT. NO ONE WAY TO DEAL WITH IT. OTHER THEN TO BE VERY GIVEN, UNDERSTANDING TO ONE ANOTHER AND ALWAYS REMEBER THE LOVE YOU ALL HAD FOR HIM. DANE IS ABOUT HIS ENTIRE FAMILY FOREMOST INCLUDING THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE. AN DANE IS LOVED BY EACH AND EVRY FALLEN FAMILY. WE JUST DIDN'T LOSE OUR DUGHTER AND OR SON. EACH TIME WE SHED THE SAME TEAR FOR DANE AND ALL OUR FALLEN SOLDIERS. WE MUST NEVER ALLOW OTHERS IN AMERICAN. TO BASH THEM AS DONE WITH OUR VIETNAM VETERANS. SOLDIER HAVE A JOB LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. AN NO SOLDIERS WANTS TO GO TO WAR. STILL AMERICA IS ALOT SAFER TODAY SINCE 911. AN DANE WAS APART OF THAT! DANE IS TRUELY, A PIECE OF HIS MOTHER AND FATHER. AN DANE WAS RAISED BY WONDERFUL PARENTS. THAT GAVE HIM DIRECTION WITH A FUTURE IN MIND. AN DANE HANDLING HIS LIFE WITH GUIDANCE. MAY NOT BE HOW OR EVERYONE WOULD OF HOPED FOR HIM. HE IS WITH YOU AND WANTS YOU ALL TO BE HAPPY NOT SAD. I PRAY FOR DANE AND YOUR FAMILY. I UNDERSTAND THE HEARTACHE TRUELY. EACH TIME I LOOK INTO MY GRAND-DAUGHTER'S EYE'S. ALEXIS ONLY SIX YEARS OLD. SHE UNDERSTAND HER FAMILY IS NOT COMING HOME. SHE ALSO UNDERSTANDS OTHERS ARE NOT COMING HOME. SHE ASKED ME WHY? I HAD TEARS. TOLD HER THE TRUTH, WRITING TO DANE AND HIS FAMILY. DANE IS WITH YOUR DADDY. I WILL PRAY FOR HIM GRANDPA. HEARTACHE IS NOT EASY TO DEAL WITH ALONE.............DEPEND ON THE LOVE YOU HAVE FOR ONE ANOTHER TO HEAL FOR DANE.....
Dane Carver
Authored by: anonymous on Saturday, December 31 2005 @ 08:14 PM EST
Dane,
I would like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for our Country. And to your family, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

"Yield To None"(125th Inf. Motto)
Dane Carver
Authored by: anonymous on Friday, January 27 2006 @ 09:01 PM EST
I served with Dane, and now, where I figured I was mentally strong and totally capable to do this, and that we are fighting a just war, I find myself in a situation where alot of people are hurt, and alot of people are killed, and all the play and the game atmosphere of training is gone. Everyone has to go sometime, just really different to have the guys you train with day in, day out, year in, year out, just vanish, seemingly from the earth, when the day prior they were 15 ft from you 24 hours a day.
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