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‘Please Pray For Us Over Here’: American Soldier’s Haunting Prophesy Of Own Death From Needlessly Walking Into Afghan ‘Minefield’ Prompts Shock On Capitol Hill
- On June 4, Staff Sergeant Matt Sitton complained of walking round in a ‘minefield’ on a daily basis to his Florida House Representative:
- On August 2, he died of wounds sustained in an IED blast
- His brigade was suffering on average one amputee casualty a day
- Commanding officer told a Congressional Committee that IED attacks had increased by 45% this year
- Rep Young said: ‘Something’s wrong with that when the soldiers can see the problems’
- His mother Cheryl has expressed her anger at the futility of his death
By Toby Harnden In Washington
Needless death? SSG Matt Sitton, pictured with wife Sarah and newborn son Brodey, questioned the futility of patrolling dangerous minefields for no good reason
The plea from Staff Sergeant Matt Sitton, 26, who ended his email hauntingly ‘please pray for us over here‘ affected Representative Bill Young of Florida so deeply that he has abandoned his previous support for the war.
An aide to Young, chairman of the influential House Appropriations Committee Defense Subcommittee, solemnly read the email into the congressional record during a hearing he had called about the Improvised Explosive (IED) threat.
In his email sent on June 4, SSgt Sitton, from Largo, Florida, whose brigade was suffering an amputee casualty a day, wrote that he appealed to his superiors to cease sending them through ‘basically a minefield on a daily basis’ for no apparent good reason but had been told to ‘stop complaining’.
The married father-of-one said; ‘I am all for getting on the ground and fighting for my country when I know there is a desired end state and we have clear guidance of what needs to be done. But when we are told basically to just walk around for a certain amount of time [it] is not sitting well with me.’
SSgt Sitton clearly feared for his own life and those of his men. ‘As a Brigade, we are averaging at a minimum an amputee a day from our soldiers because we are walking around aimlessly through grape rows and compounds that are littered with explosives.’
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Do you know how to fix this? Have those idiot “Leaders in Washington D.C. go wandering around in those same minefields. This problem would be fixed post haste.
I am so sorry this happened. As a combat Vietnam vet, it incenses me to NO END the blow hard politicians in Washington, D.C. continue to play the same games with the lives of American soldiers now as they did in 1968 and beyond. I’m with ElOregonian; get the pukes in Washington to belly up to the bar and walk a few miles in our shoes; the situation would be fixed quick.
The only thing unbelievable about this story is, “Prompts Shock on Capitol Hill”. Those bought-and-paid-for shills sitting in their thrones on Capitol Hill really couldn’t care less. I dare Congress to prove me wrong – bring those boys home now!
God bless our troops for you are nothing but cannon fodder for the globalists. They think they’re fighting the good fight when in fact they are pawns. There’s a reason why dems and republicans did everything they can to stop a Ron Paul candidacy.