How many more?
Journal Sentinel Daywatch:
MSOE grad dies in Iraq chopper crashThe current count.
Apple Valley, Minn. - Even back in high school, it had always been Nate Doring's dream to be able to fly.
"He always loved aviation - and soccer, too," Cara Skoglund said yesterday of her younger brother, Capt. Nathanael J. Doring, a Milwaukee School of Engineering grad who died when the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a large lake near the Al Taqaddum airbase in Iraq.
The Defense Department described Saturday's crash as a non-hostile accident. The crash also killed a Marine from Kansas.
Because special equipment had to be brought to the crash site to search for and recover the helicopter, Doring's death wasn't confirmed until Monday.
Family members said they were told Doring, 31, was on a maintenance test flight in his AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing when it went down.
"It was his second tour there - he was proud to be a Marine," said Doring's father, James, who lives with his wife, Betsy, in Apple Valley.
Doring was a 1993 graduate of Apple Valley High School and earned a degree in electrical engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering in 1997. Two years later, he joined the Marines and earned his pilot's wings on Oct. 11, 2001.
"He was very focused, a high achiever and a very goal-oriented person. He chose this route for himself. He always wanted to fly," said Doring's aunt, Becky Gamble, of Inver Grove Heights.
Doring's unit returned to the United States in April, but he decided to extend his tour in a non-combat role until his wife, Lisa, also a Marine officer, finished her tour in the fall. The couple met while stationed at Camp Pendleton in California and married three years ago.
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Vets board rubberstamps agency imprint on buildings
Former GOP Gov. Tommy Thompson perfected it.
The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs and Board of Veterans Affairs, is taking it to another level. That is naming buildings after themselves and political cronies.
Thompson, for example, named the Tommy G. Thompson's State Fish Hatchery, Spooner and the downtown Madison Tommy G. Thompson Commerce Building after himself.
Now, John Scocos, present WDVA secretary, and board members plan on naming state facilities after former political appointees. Not an original thought of his, of course, it is partisan political payback.
That’s why WDVA senior management gathered at Union Grove recently and dedicated a new skilled nursing facility by naming it after former WDVA secretary Ray Boland.
With board approval, Scocos intends to name almost all of the state vets’ facilities after surviving former WDVA secretaries.
The agency is honoring several members of the veterans’ community by naming certain WDVA facilities after them and the “memorializing” them while most of these guys are still around.
An administration building at a veterans’ cemetery in northern Wisconsin would be called the Italo Bensoni Administration Building. Oak Grove Building 128 would become Klein Hall. The admin building at the southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery would become Edo Maccari Administration Building. Cottage 17, the activity and admin building at the Southern Wisconsin
Center would be named Maurer Hall. And the Central service Building at King Home would be named the John Moses Central Services Building.
Why not name the structure after Michelle M. Witmer, the National Guard's first woman killed in combat? Witmer was killed in Iraq while on patrol April 9, 2004. Memorialize Eric D. Clark, the U.S. Army specialist killed May 11 in Baghdad, Iraq; Pfc. Grant Allen Dampier, 25, a soldier from Merrill killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq; and U.S. Marine Capt. Nathanael J. Doring, a Milwaukee School of Engineering grad who died in Iraq helicopter crash, by naming a building after them.
Why not name a veterans health care and nursing facility after veterans of the Navy Nurse Corps and Army Nurse Corps?
Labeling state buildings after surviving former WDVA secretaries opens the door wide for present and future secretaries to expect the same recognition.
At the February board meeting, Scocos said he looked forward to dedicating the 120-bed skilled nursing facility in Union Grove to Boland, his former leader.
Xoff,
Thanks again for showing how shallow you can be by allowing a discriminator to write once again in your blogs. You take out other comments because you think they are too much, but you allow Gary Fisher's outrageously silly and stupid comments to float around with no problems. Nice one.
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Gary Fisher (discriminator),
Do you honestly think you're being coy when you write this kind of comment inside an article about a Sailor's death? You have one deranged mind, buddy! You should once again be ashamed of yourself!
I told you I would keep following you and your disgusting comments. You slipped between the cracks, but I didn't lose you.
I sure hope Richard's keeping track of your free drinks at the Inn at the Park as well. Yeah, you're one innocent guy, aren't you? Can't afford to pay for drinks, legitimately? Why do other patrons have to suffer higher prices for your indulgences? Or is it they pay you to hear your tall tales? Yeah, that must be it!
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Well - let's have one more lesson on how irresponsible Gary Fisher's journalism skills are:
Gary Fisher quote (aka, fictitious lie):
"Why not name a veterans health care and nursing facility after veterans of the Navy Nurse corps and Army Nurse Corps?"
The Truth:
Gates Hall posthuously bears the name of WWII Nurse Marcia Gates, who cared for fellow servicemen and women while held captive in the Phillipines, one of the "Angels of Bataan."
http://dva.state.wi.us/News_Releases/Dedication_of_Gates_Hall_May_15_2004.pdf#search='fairchild%20hall%20and%20union%20grove%20home'
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I've got another idea...
Let's name a building after our great veteran, Gary Fisher! We do need great veterans to name buildings after. Oh that's right - he claims he's a veteran, Xoff claims he's a veteran, but he's too chicken to prove it. Still waiting to hear what active duty unit you served with, Gary.
Never listen to a liar and never listen to a discriminator. Gary Fisher doesn't deserve to even peek into in a legitimate press room.
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