As the U.S. starts taking casualties in the war with Iran, we are learning the names of those killed — those service members who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. This is giving me flashbacks to 2003, when I was still living in my hometown of Portland, Oregon at the beginning of the Iraq War.
In the opening days of the war in March of 2003, my brother, Idaho Air National Guard Major Gregory Stone, 40, was at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait when another soldier rolled grenades into the tent where he was asleep. The attack wounded many soldiers. My brother died from his injuries three days later.
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