Manchester (WTNH) _ A
total of 37 service-members
with Connecticut ties have
died since the start of the
war.
Congressman John Larson held
a town hall meeting in
Manchester with a main focus
on the war. There were maps,
charts and numbers totaling
the financial costs. There
was also the cost in human
lives as they talked about
the last five years of war.
Sitting front row is
State Representative Thomas
Kehoe. While he doesn't
believe in the war, he has a
son that has done one tour
in Iraq and is heading back
again in May. "He had 21
night missions most of them
up and down the Iran and
Iraq boarder."
He is proud of his son,
Matt, who is the jumper or
swimmer on combat search and
rescue missions. Kehoe
personally pinned the wings
on his son when he graduated
from SARS school and has
supported him 100 percent
during his five years as a
Navy Airman.
"There is a lot of good
that can come out of that,
it's just that one hopes
that it all hasn't been a
fools error to be over there
in the first place. While
they are there we need to be
there for them 100 percent,"
Kehoe said.
As he looks back at the
last five years, he wonders
if it will be worth it. As
for now, the parent comes
out as a father preparing to
say goodbye to a son going
off to war.
"I wish he wasn't going,
I wish his squadron was
going on a different mission
instead of to the gulf." And
as he looks ahead to the
future, he hopes with the
elections might come change
and a United States that
isn't at war.
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