Jun 27 2011
News from the Sangin District of Helmand Province in Afghanistan…
First Battalion 5th Marines have fought bitterly to secure a “safe zone” of two square kilometres (less than a square mile) around the district bazaar.
And that’s the only “safe zone” in Sangin!
You can’t see two square kilometers on this scale, but maybe if we zoom in…
Nah, you still can’t see our “safe zone,” so let’s zoom again!
Feb 12 2011
Shawn Muhr’s father Dave Muhr and his sister, Erika Muhr-Burris
COON RAPIDS, Iowa – Dave Muhr took over the squat, yellow-brick auto repair shop on the eastern edge of this Carroll County village in 1982.
His youngest son, Shawn, was born two years later. Once the boy could walk, it seemed he’d set out to take over his dad’s business by fixing whatever he could – whether it was broken or not.
Spc. Shawn Muhr was killed by an IED in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on January 29, 2011. He was married to Winifred Olchawa, and had a stepchild, Diven.
