Captain Bruno de Solenni
The Corner’s Kathryn Jean Lopez had some sad NEWS yesterday:
A brother of a friend of mine (Pia) was killed by an IED in Afghanistan this weekend, along with two Afghan interpreters. A fellow soldier was injured.
His father says Bruno wasn’t even supposed to be on the MISSION:
Mario de Solenni says his son wasn’t even supposed to be on the mission in Afghanistan that ended in the deaths of three people last week.
Capt. Bruno de Solenni, 32, had been sick and was told to rest, but he volunteered to go work with a counter-narcotics training team, his father said. He and two interpreters were killed when a roadside bomb went off Sept. 20 on their way to the Kandahar airfield, according to the Defense Department.
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Family and friends described the deeply religious young man as someone who often led and inspired his peers. He always faced danger head-on, even when working as a timber faller and ocean fisherman, his parents told the Triplicate.
After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he felt he needed to do something for his country, loved ones said.
“Bruno really believed in what he was doing,” said his sister, Pia Conway. “He died a hero’s death.”
The letter refrenced by K-Lo is HERE in its entirety.
Upon my return from Iraq, I was positive about what was going on there but very resentful at the way the media was covering the war over there. In my own view, I personally feel that some of the media deliberately fueled that war based on their own biased political views and I still hold them accountable for their actions.
Something that still upsets me is the fact that they exploited some of the crimes soldiers committed over there as a reflective view to the rest of the world of what our armies stood for. I am not saying that we didn’t make mistakes, we did make them and we have painfully corrected them.
His brother-in-law has a BLOG up in memory of the Captain, along with a couple of other news articles about his time in the military. It’s important to have faces and stories with the casualty names, and having it be someone related to folks I’ve actually known and talked with brings it much closer to hom.
May he rest in peace.
