On today's Opinion page, we have an editorial reminding people to remember those who died fighting for our country. We included a list of soldiers killed in the most recent conflict who have ties to the San Joaquin Valley. There is another name to add to that list. A 22-year-old soldier from Hanford died May 23 of wounds he suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle while on patrol in Iraq, the Department of Defense reported late Sunday evening.
Cpl. Victor H. Toledo Pulido was one of two soldiers with the 3rd Infantry Division based at Fort Benning, Ga., who were killed in the blast in Al Nahrawan, Iraq. No other details were available Sunday.
Also in today's paper, reporter Denny Boyles (my husband) wrote an article about the six soldiers from Clovis schools who have died fighting in Iraq.
It is very heartbreaking that so many of our soldiers have died in this war not just from our area but nationwide. I would love for them to all come home safely now but not at the cost of having to go back in a few years because the job didn't get finished like after the gulf war. Perhaps we need to do airstrikes again in the insurgent-run areas and get our people off the streets.