Please join the IGTNT team as we celebrate the lives and mourn the tragic loss of Spc. Travis M. Virgadamo, 19, of Las Vegas, Nevada, and Pvt. Justin T. Sanders, 22, of Watson, Louisiana.

           

Please join us today as we mourn the tragic and untimely loss of Pfc. Rogelio A. Ramirez, 21, of Los Angeles, CA; Pfc. Thomas R. Wilson, 21, of Maurertown, VA; and Sgt. James S. Collins Jr., 35, of Rochester Hills, MI.

Now cracks a noble heart.  Good night, sweet prince;  
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!  
Why does the drum come hither?

Hamlet 5.2.360

This is the third and final part of the IGTNT special tribute for the 14 victims of the US Black Hawk helicopter that crashed in northern Iraq on August 22, 2007. Please visit Parts I and II as well to read, reflect and remember all 14 of the fallen in this tragedy. This diary was co-authored by twilight falling and joyful.

A special thank you to the IGTNT team in helping with the research for all of the diaries.

Now the day is over,
Night is drawing nigh.
Shadows of the evening
Steal across the sky.

Jesus, give the weary
Calm and sweet repose;
With Thy tender blessing
May mine eyelids close.

Grant to little children
Visions bright of Thee;
Guard the sailors tossing
On the deep blue sea.

Through the long night watches
May Thine angels spread
Their white wings above me
Watching round my bed.

When the morning wakens,
Then, may I arise
Pure, and fresh, and sinless
In Thy holy eyes.

Words and Music by Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (1865) and Joseph Barnby (1868)