Today I'd like to remember the brave Military who fight for our freedom every day.
This brave 19 year old died last night. He was a life long friend of my brother, who is also a marine.
Phila. soldier dies in Afghanistan
April 20, 2011|By Kia Gregory, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
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John Kihm, 19, part of the Army's 10th Mountain Division infantry unit,…
It was 4 a.m. Saturday in Kandahar the last time Pfc. John Kihm talked to his mother on the phone.
Deployed to the war in Afghanistan in March, Kihm wanted her to know that he had the date for his forthcoming R&R. He would be home for 15 days, starting July 8.
He loved the Phillies, said his mother, Cecelia, on the phone Wednesday from the family's home in the Castor Gardens section of Northeast Philadelphia. So, she told him, she would try to get five tickets so the whole family could catch a ball game.
"I know they're going to win," Kihm had predicted, because he would be at the ballpark.
