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Many of you have been
deployed and are aware of the incredible support we
receive from our communities and Family Readiness
Groups. We have an opportunity to reach beyond our
organization and let our fellow services know how much
they mean to us. Marine Reserve Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill
of Greenfield was severely injured Oct. 14th
and has since been transferred to Bethesda Naval
Hospital and his family is at his side.
Holly Blagburn, a member
of the Indiana National Guard Family Readiness Group has
planned a chili supper to show support for Lance Cpl.
Bleill and his family. The supper will be on Friday
November 10th, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm at
the St. Joseph’s Knights of Columbus, 4332 N. German
Church Road, Indianapolis. Financial support will be
greatly appreciated, but more, a show of support for one
of our own in this most difficult time will be of
immeasurable value. |
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GREENFIELD, Ind. (AP) — A Marine from central Indiana
who survived a roadside bombing in Iraq that killed two
members of his Terre Haute-based reserve unit lost both
his legs in the attack, his parents said.
Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill, 29, of Greenfield, was one of
three Marines in a Humvee when it was struck by an
improvised explosive device Sunday during operations in
Anbar province, west of Baghdad.
Those killed during the Sunday attack were Sgt. Brock
Babb, 40, of Evansville and Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Hines,
26, of Olney, Ill.
Virg and Myra Bleill said Marine Corps officials told
them their son was in stable condition in a military
hospital in Balad, Iraq. They said he apparently was in
the machine gun turret atop the Humvee when the bomb
went off.
Bleill, a 1995 graduate of Greenfield-Central High
School in the city about 20 miles east of Indianapolis,
joined the Marine Reserves two years ago out of a sense
of duty, his mother said Tuesday. His father was a
Marine aviator, and his grandfather was wounded in
Africa during World War II.
“He
just felt like it was the right thing to do,” said Myra
Bleill, who is president of the Hancock Regional
Hospital Foundation.
He
last visited with his family in August before being
deployed to Iraq with the 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines.
The unit has been in Iraq for about two weeks. |
