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Body Found in Euphrates River Is That of Missing Soldier
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Neighbors and friends in the former mill city north of Boston waited anxiously. Francisco Urena, the city's veteran services director and a former Marine who served a tour as a tank commander in Iraq, said he could hardly contain himself as he awaited news.
"I just wish I could grab my pack and start searching for him myself," he said.
In Commerce Township, Mich., about 25 miles northwest of Detroit, a dozen trees that line the road leading to Fouty's high school were adorned with yellow ribbons.
At Fort Drum, soldiers were carrying out their training and other operations with a "business as usual" attitude as news of the body's recovery quickly made it around the post, said Sgt. Kevin Stewart, 25, a six-year veteran from San Antonio.
"We're focused on training, but I think everyone is concerned and hoping for a positive outcome," Stewart said, while standing in a shopping center parking lot off post. "As soldiers, we can all relate, and we can all imagine what it's like for the families."
Lori Kenner said that while soldiers might be concentrating on training, many spouses have probably followed the search much more closely. Kenner's husband is set to come home within the month following a 15-month deployment in Afghanistan.
"I know the waiting and not knowing must be horrible," said Kenner, 28, of Seattle, Wash. "But at least as long as they are still missing there is a possibility that they are still alive."
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Associated Press writers Glenn Johnson in Lawrence, Mass., David Aguilar in Commerce Township, Mich. and William Kates at Fort Drum, N.Y., contributed to this report.
