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LibraryLady(ncjanow)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 2649
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 3, 2005 - 6:34 pm: | 
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He was a friend of my son when they were kids. His mom served on our Board of Education.
Jersey native among Marines killed in Iraq
A New Jersey native was among 14 Marine Reservists killed today when a roadside bomb destroyed their amphibious assault vehicle during a combat patrol near Iraq's border with Syria.
Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder, 23, graduated in 2000 from Columbia High School in Maplewood, said his mother, Rosemary Palmer. Schroeder was a student at Ohio State University and a member of the 3rd Battalion of the 25th Marines in Brook Park, Ohio.
Schroeder had only six weeks remaining in his tour in Iraq, which began in January, his mother said |
Dave
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| | Posted on Wednesday, August 3, 2005 - 6:46 pm: |
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Nice to see you, LL.
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Joan
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Post Number: 5997
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 3, 2005 - 8:06 pm: |
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Nancy:
I'm so glad you are back and so sorry your message had to be such a sad one. Augie was a friend of my son's too. They were in scouts together and worked together at Camp Glen Grey.
It was hard when my friends' parents started dying but I was able to accept that at least my friends' parents had long full lives, full of accomplishments they could leave behind.
It has become harder to see some of my contemporaries die. They should still have had many fruitful years ahead of them; their lives were cut too short.
But, when my son's contemporaries start dying, Augie is not the first unfortunately, I have trouble dealing with it. It is far too soon for a young person so full of promise to have his life cut short like this.
BGS was kind enough to post that there will be rememberance service for Augie at Morrow tomorrow at 8 PM. I hope you can make it. |
SoOrLady
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Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 2447
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 3, 2005 - 10:23 pm: |
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We hope all who feel a need to come together will join us tomorrow at Morrow.
Augie was a member of my youth group, he was the kind of kid every mother hoped their daughter would grow up and marry. Kind, generous, dedicated to service to others, with just enough mischeviousness to make him fun and interesting.
He stayed with us the summer his parents moved to Ohio so he could finish up his summer job at the pool and continue volunteering as an EMT in West Orange. I'll never forget the look on his face when he came in one morning at 8 a.m - he had just had his first "CPR save" and he was glowing. That's how I'll remember him. |
peteglider
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Username: Peteglider
Post Number: 1347
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 3, 2005 - 10:58 pm: |
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There have been other sad stories posted on MOL. This is a tough one.
I cannot come close to imagining what his parents and family are going through right now. Such a young man -- with so much future and promise.
Thank you for the memories shared --
Pete |
Just The Aunt
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Post Number: 1995
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 4, 2005 - 4:04 am: |
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In today's Ledger
'I'm OK,' wrote the former Jerseyan in last e-mail
Thursday, August 04, 2005
BY WAYNE WOOLLEY
Star-Ledger Staff
After he spent nearly five months in Iraq, Marine Lance Cpl. Edward August "Augie" Schroeder's communications with his parents in Ohio had fallen into a predictable pattern.
The 23-year-old former South Orange resident would check in with a brief phone call or a terse e-mail saying he would be "out of touch" for a few days. Then his parents, Paul Schroeder and Rosemary Palmer, would get a longer e-mail or phone call, in which their son would tell them a little bit about his latest mission.
There had been no word for more than a week, and by yesterday morning Schroeder's parents had turned to the Internet, looking for the latest news from Iraq.
"We had just found out that 14 Marines had been killed -- and then there they were, at our door," Palmer said yesterday. "I don't have words to describe how much it hurts."
The military casualty assistance team that arrived at the family's home in Cleveland told them Schroeder, a 2000 graduate of Columbia High School in Maplewood, had been among the 14 Marines killed when a roadside bomb tore through their amphibious assault vehicle near Haditha, near the Syrian border.
All of the Marines killed by the blast were reservists assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines in Brook Park, Ohio. Six members of the same unit had been killed in a gunbattle with insurgents Monday.
Schroeder is at least the 52nd service member with ties to New Jersey to be killed in Iraq.
Palmer said her son's periodic e-mail messages and calls gave only sparse information about what his unit was doing. He had told her the battalion was taking part in Operation Matador, which the Defense Department said yesterday has been an ongoing operation to try to prevent insurgents from Syria from entering Iraq through the Euphrates Valley.
His last call to his parents came early on a Sunday two weeks ago.
His mother said they talked for about 15 minutes. "He sounded very tired," she said.
His last e-mail was about a week ago: "Mom, Dad, stuff is going on here, I'm OK."
Schroeder's family had moved to New Jersey just before he began first grade at Livingston Elementary School. Paul Schroeder, a China trade specialist, was working for the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in New York.
Before that, the family had lived for several years in Wuhan, China.
After they moved, Palmer served on the Maplewood-South Orange Board of Education in the early 1990s.
Growing up, Schroeder was a Boy Scout and a counselor at Camp Glen Gray in Mahwah.
He wasn't a great athlete, his mother said, but loved sports anyway. He played Pop Warner football and was on the swim team and lacrosse team at Columbia High.
While in high school, Schroeder passed the qualification tests to become an emergency medical technician. He served for a brief time on the emergency squads in West Orange and South Orange.
"He just liked to help people," his mother said.
The family moved to Ohio after Schroeder graduated. He enrolled at the Ohio State University and was pursuing a criminal justice degree.
But his focus changed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and he started talking about joining the Marines. His mother, who said she never let him even play with toy guns when he was growing up, tried to dissuade him.
But she couldn't. Schroeder enlisted a few months after the attacks.
At first, Schroeder told his mother he hoped to be an MP and would "never see combat." But he was assigned to an infantry unit. He and his comrades arrived in Iraq in March.
"They only had six weeks to go," Palmer said. "They had survived all this time, and they were going to come home."
Wayne Woolley covers the military. He may be reached at wwoolley@starledger.com or (973) 392-1559.
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DeborahG
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Username: Deborahg
Post Number: 1532
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 4, 2005 - 9:11 am: |
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My prayers are with Augie's family and all who loved him. God bless, |
Matt Foley
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Username: Mattfoley
Post Number: 369
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 4, 2005 - 12:11 pm: |
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Augie was a great kid. I was good friends with his older sister growing up. I am shocked and upset with the news. |
extuscan
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Username: Extuscan
Post Number: 493
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 4, 2005 - 11:04 pm: |
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I am ransacking my belongings, thinking that I have a comic of Augie from Glen Gray. He was a CIT when I was asst. Waterfront... All the issues of the camp newsletter were put together at the end of the year and the archery director, Paul, made comics of everyone. I hope that was the right year... anyway, from years after I left Glen Gray, here's an online edition of "The Tulip Leaf", and here are some words from Augie:
Waterfront Woes
By: Augie Schroeder
This year has seen many changes to the camp and its staff, but one of the most notable ones is the departure of our former waterfront director, Mr. Wiggin who has been the Waterfront director for quite some time. As a Cub Scout I remember him as the man who convinced me to learn how to swim, which would be the skill I use as a lifeguard. Later as staff, I remember him as the boss who demanded al at, but got things done and out of the way. His departure left an opening on the waterfront for a new, younger point of view as waterfront director.
Enter Jeff Giltzow, fresh out of national camp school Jeff comes with a myriad of certifications, as well as a slew of fresh ideas. Jeff is also an incredible leader, able to motivate his crew to do good work; yet have fun with the crew and be like one of them. When asked what the largest thing he’d like to change on the waterfront is, he speaks of his idea of removing the lap lanes, bringing the floating dock down to the other docks, and extending the swimmers area. His fresh ideas lead the waterfront toward an uncertain road to glory, as opposed to Mr. Wiggin’s old standard that always works. As to which is a better approach, only time will tell, and only the faces of the campers can show.
(Special note to JOAN: If Joey happens to have that year's "yearbook" (we only printed it two years, and I think only one had comic) ask him to check if Augie was in it that year...)
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Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 6004
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, August 5, 2005 - 5:32 pm: |
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John:
Will do. With so many of Augie's friends visiting MOL, I think it would be a nice idea to start a rememberance of Augie blog on this website.
If no one has beaten me to it, I am going to start one now. Please drop by and post your memories of Augie, messages to Amanda and/or Augie's parents, pictures, works of creativity such as the Tulip Leaf article, etc. |
BGS
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Post Number: 259
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, August 6, 2005 - 3:28 pm: |
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This is today from Augie's Dad:
Dear Friends:
If you are not otherwise occupied Sunday morning, tune in to George Stephanopoulos morning new show on ABC. I can't recall the name and don't know the time. He interviewed Rosemary and the father of another Marine killed to get differing viewpoints.
Many thanks for all your kind words, thoughts, and prayers. I'll keep you posted on the funeral arrangements when we know them.
Warm regards,
Paul Schroeder |
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