Dammit!

LoLo posted the other day about the HBO Special Baghdad ER and said how hard it was to watch but important for everybody to do so.....

And now, I get this emailed to me from the City:

EXECUTIVE ORDER # 153
Relating to a Proclamation that the Flag of the United States and the Flag of the State of Wisconsin be Flown at Half-Staff as a Mark of Respect for Specialist Grant Dampier of the United States Army Who Lost His Life During Operation Iraqi Freedom

WHEREAS, on May 15, 2006, Specialist Grant Dampier, a member of 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, United States Army, was killed in action in Iraq; and

WHEREAS, Specialist Grant Dampier provided faithful and honorable service to the people of the State of Wisconsin and the people of the United States; and

WHEREAS, the people of Wisconsin mourn the death of Specialist Grant Dampier; and

WHEREAS, a funeral service will be held for Specialist Grant Dampier on Friday, May 26, 2006;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JIM DOYLE, Governor of the State of Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me by Federal and State law, do hereby order that the flag of the United States and the flag of the State of Wisconsin shall be flown at half-staff at all buildings, grounds and military installations of the State of Wisconsin equipped with such flags beginning at sunrise on May 26, 2006, and ending at sunset on that date.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the City of Madison this twenty-fourth day of May, in the year two thousand six.

JIM DOYLE Governor

His obituary says he was born in Wisconsin Rapids.....he lived in Merrill....he had two children...

We've lost another Son of Wisconsin and I don't know why but this one hit me really really hard.

here's the Obit..

http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/DampierGrantAllen/print