{"id":4110,"date":"2011-04-21T05:56:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T09:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2011-04-21T12:45:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T16:45:33","slug":"morning-read-fort-drum-soldiers-hit-hard-this-week-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/04\/21\/morning-read-fort-drum-soldiers-hit-hard-this-week-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Fort Drum soldiers hit hard this week in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20110421\/NEWS03\/304219955\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting that a fourth soldier in a week from Fort Drum has died in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pfc. John F. Kihm, 19, Philadelphia, Pa., served with the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment [and was killed on Tuesday.]  Post officials have not yet released a cause of death or said whether it was combat related.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Saturday, meanwhile, three soldiers were killed in a single attack, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20110420\/NEWS03\/304209947\">according to the newspaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The infantry soldiers, who served with the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry  Regiment, were attacked in Nimroz province Saturday by insurgents using  an improvised explosive device, according to a division press release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this month, Fort Drum commander spoke with NCPR&#8217;s David Sommerstein and other North Country reporters about the situation in Afghanistan.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/17457\/20110411\/drum-commander-cites-progress-in-afghanistan\">Hear David&#8217;s report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Do continuing casualties in Afghanistan raise questions about our long-term role and mission there?\u00a0 Is this simply the hard reality of war and a necessary sacrifice?\u00a0 Your thoughts and comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that a fourth soldier in a week from Fort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4882,997,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4111,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions\/4111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}