Wednesday, March 19, 2008

"Andrew's life was the Marines.

The Cost of War: One Son's Life was Claimed in Combat; Another by the Trauma that Followed It


Julie Robinson
Chareston Gazette

Mar 18, 2008


March 15, 2008 - See a video presentation of this story at http://www.wvgazette.com/costofwar


Stan and Shirley White of Cross Lanes remember they were at a restaurant that day - Sept. 26, 2005. They were talking about their youngest son, Andrew, and about how happy they were to have him home safe from Iraq.


Then, Shirley's cell phone rang. It was their daughter-in-law on the other end - the wife of their middle son, Bob, who was stationed in Afghanistan with the Army. Bob's Humvee had been hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. He was gone.


Now, 2 1/2 years later - on Feb. 12 - the Whites lost 23-year-old Andrew. He died mysteriously in his sleep, just as he was beginning an achingly slow climb out of the debilitating post-traumatic stress disorder.


Their oldest son, Will, a career Naval officer, is in the Persian Gulf.

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Pfc. Andrew White, from first platoon, Company K, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), waits in line to draw casual pay from the traveling disbursing team from Combat Logistics Battalion 22, 22nd MEU(SOC) aboard the USS Gunston Hall, Aug. 8. Though normally based on the USS Kearsarge, the disbursers traveled to the Gunston Hall to provide disbursing services for the 22nd MEU Marines aboard that ship.
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He looks like Andrew White from the video. If it is not the same Marine, please let me know.

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