Ironic twist to missing soldiers story! Was falsely reported dead last month!

[sce56]

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/7529422.html
'We have to wait' says Torrance soldier's father
Graduate of South High in Torrance is among missing soldiers believed held by terrorists. Three weeks ago, he was falsely rumored to be dead. News started circulating on a Sunday three weeks ago that the former football standout had been killed in Iraq. By the next morning, the gossip had been accepted as gospel.
Students at South High posted a somber message -- "In Loving Memory, Joseph Anzack, 2005" -- on the school marquee. A former coach called his grandmother, Betty Anzack, to find out what happened, leaving her distraught. Friends began posting condolence messages on the MySpace page Anzack Sr. started to stay in closer touch with his son.

The rumor was ultimately dispelled when the soldier himself, located alive and well by American Red Cross workers, phoned home to reassure his worried family. He later updated his own MySpace page to read, "I'm not dead, I'm still kickin.' "

"The way I think about it is, whoever started that rumor jinxed us," sister Casey Anzack, 16, a sophomore at Torrance High, said Tuesday. "That experience prepared us, to a certain extent. But words can't really explain it. It's just left me numb."

At the sprawling South High campus, where Anzack played football for four years, those who knew him were stunned by the latest news.



I rember driving by the school and seeing the erroneus posting and of his name and knew it had to be a soldier in Iraq they were talking about. Let's hope he and his buddies are lucky enough to get back home alive.

Damm AWOL BUSH for his folly of a war!

[Patsy Stone]

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he wouldn't even be able to update his MySpace page according to the new rules.

Here's hoping he's safe.