20 February 2007

Swampscott's Burden

The war seems to have hit the small seaside town of Swampscott, Massachusetts a bit unevenly.

Robert Jalbert perished on one of the hijacked planes on September 11, 2001. Journalist Michael Kelly, a Swampscott native, was killed in Iraq just weeks after the war started there. Army Specialist Jared Raymond was killed last September when his tank was hit by a roadside bomb in Taji, Iraq.

And last week the town buried Marine Capt. Jennifer Harris, who was piloting a helicopter that was shot down by Iraqi Sunnis northwest of Baghdad on February 7.

(Photo: Stephan Savoia / The Associated Press)