GI Special 4G13: " The War Should Have Been Over" - July 13, 2006

Thomas F. Barton

Margarita Rose bears a mother's grief and anger - her 21-year-old son, Christopher D. Rose, was too young to be a soldier and too young to die.Killed Thursday by a roadside bomb in Baghdad, Christopher Rose, who grew up in Vallejo, was scheduled to return to the United States in October. He was sent to Iraq in December for his first tour of duty.After serving his country, Christopher wanted to go school and become a police officer, said Margarita Rose, a Daly City resident."What a waste of his life," she said in an interview Sunday."I'm very angry. I wish the war was over. I wish there was no war. How many young people have to die? That's the saddest thing. They are just 19, 20 and 21. They are just starting their lives," she said.(...)

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