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Alabama graduate:Mark Forester (29 yrs old) killed in Afghanistan
Posted on 10/1/10 at 7:45 am
Posted on 10/1/10 at 7:45 am
Tuscaloosa News
From his friend's photography website
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Forester, a University of Alabama graduate and senior airman with the U.S. Air Force, was supposed to return home to Haleyville next month and had already made plans to attend the Iron Bowl in November with his family.
Instead, Forester, 29, died Wednesday in combat in Afghanistan.
His family described him as good brother and a gentle friend.
Forester’s brother, Thad, said he couldn’t reveal many of the details surrounding his brother’s death.
“He went down fighting,” Thad Forester said.
Thad Forester, 33, said he was concerned when his little brother announced that he would be taking his finance degree not to Wall Street but to war.
From his friend's photography website
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An Air Force carry team carries a transfer case containing the remains of Senior Airman Mark Forester Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. during a rainstorm. According to the Department of Defense, Forester, 29, of Haleyville, Ala. , died Sept. 29 in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan while conducting combat operations in the area.
This post was edited on 10/1/10 at 11:23 am
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Posted on 10/1/10 at 7:47 am to RollTide MJ
Sad day. 
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Posted on 10/1/10 at 7:48 am to RollTide MJ
We sometimes forget the TRUE heroes in life talking smack back and forth over college football, but this man was a TRUE AMERICAN HEROE!
Posted on 10/1/10 at 7:48 am to RollTide MJ
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“He went down fighting,” Thad Forester said.
RIP young man
Posted on 10/1/10 at 7:48 am to superman
I swear we're going to be in Afghanistan for 15 years. I'm sure we have our reasons for being there, but it just seems crazy to me.
Prayers sent to the guy's family.
Prayers sent to the guy's family.
Posted on 10/1/10 at 7:51 am to ACL11190
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I swear we're going to be in Afghanistan for 15 years
I think you undershot that...
Posted on 10/1/10 at 7:53 am to RollTide MJ
I just got though reading that in today's paper:(
RIP and God Bless him and his family
RIP and God Bless him and his family
Posted on 10/1/10 at 7:53 am to RollTide MJ
One of the few things for me that, comparatively, makes football completely insignificant. May God bless his family in their painful loss.
Posted on 10/1/10 at 8:04 am to FleshEatingSalsa
This young man is bigger than ANY football game.
God bless him and his family.
God bless him and his family.
Posted on 10/1/10 at 8:20 am to bog8r
God bless him and his family.
Posted on 10/1/10 at 8:21 am to RollTide MJ
RIP
Posted on 10/1/10 at 8:22 am to RollTide MJ
Prayers to his family. I have a best friend who has been over there a couple times, and I always have that bad fear in the back of my mind that something will happen. I can't imagine.
Posted on 10/1/10 at 8:28 am to alabamabuckeye
We might bicker back and forth about our teams, but the important message here is that we are all Americans and for that, I could not be prouder
Posted on 10/1/10 at 8:38 am to RollTide MJ
Prayers sent to the family.
Posted on 10/1/10 at 8:41 am to plutonium55
My first cousin who has lived in Birmingham for about the last four years was really sad yesterday about her friend that had gotten killed in combat. I'm guessin it might be the same guy.
Posted on 10/1/10 at 8:51 am to Tds & Beer
RIP young man, thank you for giving the ultimate sacrifice so we can enjoy our daily lives.
Posted on 10/1/10 at 8:54 am to RollTide MJ
RIP, Forester. Roll Tide (from an LSU fan).
Posted on 10/1/10 at 8:56 am to MetArl15
God Bless him, his family, and America.
Posted on 10/1/10 at 8:57 am to MetArl15
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RIP young man, thank you for giving the ultimate sacrifice so we can enjoy our daily lives.
this + 1000000000000000000000
/salute to those that have made the ultimate sacrifice for all of us!
Posted on 10/1/10 at 9:04 am to Thracken13
Prayers to his family
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