"I just want to wake up from it right now." -- Army PFC Matt Pollini's brother

The Massachusetts community of Rockland is grieving the loss of one of their own in Iraq. Pfc. Matthew Pollini was killed yesterday. He was just 21-years-old.

His brother is holding it together, the rest of his family is trying to do so, as well. Matt Pollini enlisted in 2005.

He is the second Rockland serviceman to die in Iraq in two years.

Army Private First Class Matt Pollini was just 21 when he died in Iraq Thursday.

http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2009/01/23/Soldier-from-Rockland-MA/12...

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[Sparrowhawk1161]

This man died for you! He died to help freedom be for all people. Everywhere. In every part of the world. The young man's death show's what you have and you take for grantite...

Not in other countries. Those places? Even the basic things like "water" is not something the can just get.

Yet, they should have them. And, this soldier? He died so you can have those things...and everyone else in the world who deserves them. In any country.

He is our life blood. Even past away...

[ColdBoi]

Soldiers are corporate pawns, the sooner these jarheads get that the sooner we'll have lesser grieving mothers.

[sarhone566]

Thank GOD for these brave MEN and WOMEN who are still willing to fight for our freedom, and give us all the choices we have while politicians are trying to take them away!!! Thanks, God Bless you guys, it's the hardest job around and the most thankless!!!

[JBiebs4Ever121]

God bless you sir, thank you for everything. it mean so much to me. <3 God Bless You and your family sir. GOD BLESS AMERICA.

[EvenTheMoonLies]

I'm so sorry /:

[niksteriffic]

@ih8britni

I am so sorry for your loss, you and your family are heros all~~~~

[MrJa1259]

@ahfa53 it also says the star field is in the direction of advance. and hello its the army nothing they ever write on a piece of paper sounds good.

[ahfa53]

@MrJa1259 the Army regulation contradicts itself...the "star field forward on the right arm is opposite of the "flag's own right". The proper display of the flag is with the star field always to the flag's own right (the observers left). Somebody better tell the Army to change the regulation to the "flag's own left" if "forward" is what they mean.

[centurion180ad]

@MrJa1259 I never saw anyone or any thing, with a backwards flag displayed anywhere in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

I am SURE the backwards flag was just changed by only the Army in 2005, because if it hadn't been just changed in that revision it would not have been listed in the summary of changes.

[MrJa1259]

@centurion180ad ya it was altered to accomidate the acus because 2005 was when the army switched over nothin changed about the flag on any of the uniforms. especially seeing how it dates back to us army cavalry riding into battle.

[AroundSun]

@centurion180ad yea you are correct, it is a new corporate conspiracy to put the flag on backwards. do you think before you speak. a simpleton like you can just google this shit its not hard. i know why it is the way it is. you have retarded conspiracy crap and just a bunch of nonsense. get a life

[centurion180ad]

@MrJa1259 I was not a REMF.

I looked up Army Regulation 670-1 on the internet, and the reference you cite was stated as altered 03 FEB 2005 in the Summary of Change. I tried to look up current Navy Regulation for a comparison, but the site is down.

In the body of the online text it is peculiar that none of the alteration history of the manual are listed as footnotes. It has been SO long ago for me, but I recall that all alterations are referenced and cross reference on each paragraph.