Guiselle is alone in a townhouse filled with memories. He’s a floor boss at Bimbo Bakeries USA, working swing shift at the company’s Pico Rivera distribution center. Guiselle Harris has just arrived home from her job as a licensed dental assistant. And how did it hurt the families? How did it hurt the extended families? How does it hurt that all these Californians aren’t here?” “It’s not just about the soldier that was killed,” Cindy Sheehan said in a recent interview. forces in Afghanistan in a decade.įor the families - and the state - the loss from the war on terror is incalculable. It was the deadliest single attack against U.S. 26 suicide bombing at the Kabul airport gate were Marines from California: Lance Cpl. They left behind 453 children.Ī third of the troops who were killed in the Aug.

Nearly 20% of California’s war dead were old enough to die for their country but too young to buy a drink. No state has lost as many as California 776 men and women who called the Golden State home have died, 11% of the nation’s casualties. With at least 13 troops killed in the August suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, about 7,050 men and women in uniform have died in the “forever war.” military in the war on terror - in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere - has reached a terrible peak. Leroy was killed in Iraq on April 20, 2004, three years into the war on terror, three years after hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and a field in rural Pennsylvania, leaving behind a scar on this nation that has yet to fade and for families like the Harrises remains as fresh as ever.Īs the 20th anniversary of Sept.

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