A Third/Final Iraq Tour of Duty
By Oak Leaf ~ April 16th, 2007 @ 11:05 am
Jesus Solorio was awarded a Purple Heart for the following injuries during his first tour in Iraq:
“He got shot through the cheek and shattered his jaw. He didn’t have any teeth.”
Despite receiving such injuries, he would return to Iraq a second tour and be awarded a second Purple Heart:
shrapnel from a roadside bomb struck his hand.
There will not be a fourth tour for Jesus Solorio as he was killed last week on his third tour leaving behind a wife and young child.
I have served two voluntary tours in SW Asia since 9/11. This is why I personally could not ask another man to do a third tour. I can not ask another man to do involuntarily what I would not voluntarily do.
May his wife and young child be blessed for their loss.
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