So each year I remember those that didnt come back from Afghanistan with me in 2001-2002.

Politics aside, I'd Just like to share it with you all.

Marine Corps Sgt. Nathan P. Hays, 21, of Wilbur, Wash.; assigned to Marine Aerial Transport Refueler Squadron 352, based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Calif.; killed in a refueling tanker crash, on Jan. 9, 2002 in Pakistan.

Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Stephen L. Bryson, 36, of Montgomery, Ala.; assigned to Marine Aerial Transport Refueler Squadron 352, based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Calif.; killed in a refueling tanker crash, on Jan. 9, 2002 in Pakistan.

Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Scott N. Germosen, 37, of New York City; assigned to Marine Aerial Transport Refueler Squadron 352, based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Calif.; killed in a refueling tanker crash, on Jan. 9, 2002 in Pakistan.

Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Bryan P. Bertrand, 23, of Coos Bay, Ore.; assigned to Marine Aerial Transport Refueler Squadron 352, based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Calif.; killed in a refueling tanker crash, on Jan. 9, 2002 in Pakistan.

Marine Corps Capt. Daniel G. McCollum, 29, of Irmo, S.C.; assigned to Marine Aerial Transport Refueler Squadron 352, based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Calif.; killed in a refueling tanker crash, on Jan. 9, 2002 in Pakistan.

Marine Corps Sgt. Jeannette L. Winters, 25, of Gary, Ind.; assigned to Marine Aerial Transport Refueler Squadron 352, based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Calif.; killed in a refueling tanker crash, on Jan. 9, 2002 in Pakistan.

Marine Corps Capt. Matthew W. Bancroft, 29, of Redding, Calif.; assigned to Marine Aerial Transport Refueler Squadron 352, based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Calif.; killed in a refueling tanker crash, on Jan. 9, 2002 in Pakistan.

Marine Corps Sgt. Dwight J. Morgan , 24, of Mendocino Calif.; assigned to Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361, based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Calif.; killed in a CH-53E crash on Jan. 20, 2002 in Afghanistan.

Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Walter F. Cohee III, 26, of Wicomico, Md.; assigned to Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361, based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Calif.; killed in a CH-53E crash on Jan. 20, 2002 in Afghanistan.

Yeah thats what I thought when we first lost them. Now that I have a family I look at the ages again and see sons and daughters without moms and dads also.

Hug em if you got em.

The cause is still not known.

It could have been the lack of night vision on the aircraft combined with the dusk landing time. Also KC 130 came into service in 1962 so equipment malfunction has never been ruled out.

On a lighter note some funny times from the front around that date.

Camel attack?

Yes, that's what Lance Corporal Jesse Mendoza and his unit wrote, half seriously and half jokingly, on the calendar in their "fighting hole" on the fringe of their base in southern Afghanistan.

"It was a pretty crazy night," Mendoza recalled.

"I had my NVGs (night vision goggles) on and I saw a big old camel running in the compound," the 20-year-old from Fresno, a hint of a grin appearing through the opening of his black balaclava.

The beast's romp caused such a stir that several Marines poured a torrent of gunfire at it. But they found neither hide nor hair of it later, either because they missed or because small arms were not enough to bring it down.