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Anthony Yost

    
Wednesday, November 23 2005 @ 12:33 AM MST
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Individuals USMILLINGTON -- Anthony R.C. Yost was two months away from retiring with 20 years in the military when he was killed, family members say. "He was coming home (to Millington) in January; he wanted to get out so that he could be there for his 2-year-old son, A.J. (Anthony James)," said Yost's grandmother Fern M. Yost, 79, of Clio.

A suicide bomber on Friday killed Yost, an Army Special Forces master sergeant, in Iraq, a federal Department of Defense Web site shows.



The vehicle detonated near his position during combat operations. Yost was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group in Fort Bragg, N.C. Yost, 39, and his wife, Joann, had lived in North Carolina where he was stationed.

"They said he was a hero, the way he died," Yost's mother, Penny Cairnduff of Linden, said of soldiers who on Saturday notified her of her son's death.

Cairnduff said her son, a 1984 graduate of Millington High School, spoke five languages and was a sniper expert. She remembered her son as a giving person who loved his children and family. "He was a smart kid. He loved his job," she said.

Yost also has a daughter, Cheyenne, 13, by his first wife, Penny. Cheyenne attends Jake L. Meachum Junior High School in Millington. The family decided to bury Yost at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., they said.

==Another news story==

MILLINGTON, Mich. — An Army Special Forces soldier from Michigan who spent nearly two decades serving in the military was killed in an explosion detonated by a suicide bomber in Mosul, Iraq, his parents said.

Sgt. Anthony Yost, a 39-year-old native of Millington, who had been in the military for 19 years, died after the explosion at a building Friday, his father, Donald Yost of Millington, told The Flint Journal.

Anthony Yost was stationed in Fort Bragg, N.C.

“They said he was a hero, the way he died,” Yost’s mother, Penny Cairnduff, of Linden, said of soldiers who on Saturday notified her of her son’s death.

Cairnduff said her son, a graduate of Millington High School, spoke five languages and was a sniper expert. She remembered her son as a giving person who loved his children and family.

“He was a smart kid. He loved his job,” she said.

Anthony Yost is survived by a daughter, Cheyenne, 13, of Clio, and a son, A.J., 2, of North Carolina, Donald Yost said. His wife, Joann, also lives in North Carolina.

Kris K. Currie, 39, a secretary at Millington Elementary School, graduated with Yost from Millington High School.

“I remember how much he loved basketball and played on the basketball and baseball teams for the school,” Currie told The Saginaw News.

Donald Yost said his son had been in Iraq since spring, but they spoke about once a week.

Funeral arrangements for Yost were incomplete.

Millington is located 15 miles northeast of Flint.
 
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Anthony Yost
Authored by: anonymous on Thursday, November 24 2005 @ 09:04 PM MST
Anthony,
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.

Green Berets All The Way!
Anthony Yost
Authored by: anonymous on Monday, November 28 2005 @ 03:19 PM MST
Thank God for heros and people who will give 20 years service to OUR country.

Deepest sympathy to your family and loved ones.
Anthony Yost
Authored by: anonymous on Tuesday, November 29 2005 @ 02:56 PM MST
Tony "Two Guns" Yost,

You gave your all even til the end as we have all been witness to. Your pride and loyalty to our country and the fight you presented to those who oppose our ideology will never be forgotten!!

Thank you (and family) for the incredible sacrifice that is so often unhesitantly asked for and yet always readily given.

You will not be forgotten.

Wpns Detachment, B-4-1 SWC
Anthony Yost
Authored by: anonymous on Saturday, December 03 2005 @ 03:57 PM MST
DEEPLY SADDEN BY THE NEWS OF YOUR DEATH. ANTHONY THANK YOU FOR BEING A BROTHER TO OUR SON. AS HE FELT OF YOU. NEITHER OF YOU KNEW ONE ANOTHER PERSONALLY. JUST THAT COMMON BOND BETWEEN MEN SERVING OUR COUNTRY. THANK YOU FOR SERVING OUR COUNTRY. YOU HAVE NOT DIED IN VAIN! AN YOU TRUELY, ARE AN AMERICAN HERO! MY HEART AND PRAYS ARE WITH YOUR FAMILY. ESPECIALLY, YOUR WIFE AND CHILDREN! I UNDERSTAND THIS HEARTACHE. FOR YOU AND GREGORY ARE UNITED AGAIN AS BROTHERS. MY TEARS NEVER STOPPED FOR OUR SON. ONLY TODAY, AND THOSE TEARS ARE FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. WE LOST GREGORY IN BALAD, IRAQ ON 05-03-04, AN THE LOST HURTS! AN IT HURT EVEN MORE WITH NEWS OF YOUR DEATH ANTHONY. YOU ARE IN MY PRAYS AND YOUR FAMILY! WE ALL DEAL WITH OUR LOST VERY DIFFERENTLY! AN WE ALL MY GIVE ONE ANOTHER SPACE. TRUST ME ANTHONY AS GREGORY ARE WITH US! AN BOTH WILL BE WATCHING. NEITHER ONE WANT ANY OF US UNHAPPY!........GOD BLESS!
Anthony Yost
Authored by: anonymous on Thursday, January 12 2006 @ 01:27 PM MST
All I can say is thank you! Your son is what keeps us free. God bless the little boy. Tell him his daddy is watching over him.
Anthony Yost
Authored by: anonymous on Tuesday, May 09 2006 @ 07:15 PM MDT
Andy was our hero. His family and friends in his homestate of Michigan miss him so much but he has left us with years of memories to treasure and also a beautiful daughter who we promise to watch over and protect . We will love him forever and a day!
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