Michigan soldier's body found

He and Sgt. Jimenez captured 14 months ago

Private Byron Fouty

The bodies of two U.S. soldiers missing in Iraq for more than a year have been found, their families said Thursday night. The military would not immediately confirm the report.

The father of Army Sgt. Alex Jimenez, of Lawrence, Mass., said the remains of his son and another soldier, Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, of Waterford, Mich., had been identified in Iraq.

Jimenez, 25, and Fouty, 19, were kidnapped along with a third member of the 2nd Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division during an ambush in May 2007 in the volatile area south of Baghdad known as the "triangle of death." The body of the third seized soldier, Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr. of Torrance, Calif., was found in the Euphrates River a year later.

Young Private Fouty, rushed to the Iraq occupation because of the 'surge', is a clear, and an unfortunate example of Iraq's cost to this nation.

We rushed our teenagers to a situation where they fought and died for Iraqi men who wouldn't fight their own fight.

And wingnuts were, and remain, silent.

Rest in peace, Pvt. Fouty and Sgt. Jimenez.