Some Members of Lima Company Returning to Iraq

You probably remember the Marine Reserve company called Lima Company. Here is the original article from The Washington Post (August 4, 2005):

A Marine Reserve company that was known as "Lucky Lima" before suffering heavy casualties in May was hit Wednesday by the deadliest roadside bombing of the Iraq war, a massive explosion that killed 14 Marines and the unit's Iraqi interpreter, according to witnesses and military spokesmen....
.....As it turned out, Lima Company and the rest of the 25th Regiment were beginning four months in which they would be bombed and ambushed in the grimy Euphrates River towns where U.S. commanders say foreign insurgents had moved freely. During the tour, 16 members of Lima Company have been killed, according to a military spokesman in Columbus, Ohio, 1st Sgt. James Halbig.

As a whole, the 25th Regiment suffered 20 dead in May and June. Then, with Wednesday's bombing and two attacks Monday, the number of dead more than doubled, to 41....

When they returned home, they were assured by their military commanders that their next deployment would not be Iraq. Knowing members of Lima Company and seeing them at special events, the people of Ohio have really embraced and honored these Marines and their sacrifice.

Then in today's Dispatch..........

Ten Marine reservists with Columbus-based Lima Company have been called up for another tour of duty in Iraq. Nine of them fought in Iraq when 23 members of the company were killed.....

....All 10 of the Marines have served in Iraq before, said Capt. Paul Greenberg, a spokesman with the Marine Forces Reserve Headquarters in New Orleans.

The Marine reservists are being mobilized to fill out the ranks of the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment based in Garden City, N.Y....

I'm sad to see these Marines sent back to Iraq. I'm also so sorry that so many of our young men and women in uniform have suffered so much because of Bush's war in Iraq. It is time to bring them home.