Tragedy Strikes Both Family and School Again

Aug 20, 2002
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Family loses a second son in Iraq war
Central Valley resident is among 14 killed in helicopter crash. A brother died in a 2004 bombing. A third is returning from war zone.
From the Associated Press

August 24, 2007

CLOVIS, Calif. -- Grief counselors were dispatched Thursday to Buchanan High School, an all-too-familiar sight at a school that has lost five graduates in the Iraq war -- now including two brothers.

Residents of the Central Valley community were mourning the death of Army Spc. Nathan Hubbard, 21, who was among 14 troops killed Wednesday when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in northern Iraq.

It was the second tragedy for his family, who lost another son to the war three years ago, family friends said.

Keith Butterfield said he became close to the Hubbards after his own son, Tony -- also a Buchanan High graduate -- died in Iraq last year......



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Family's 2nd son is lost in Iraq war
By ANNE DUDLEY ELLIS
and DOUG HOAGLAND
THE FRESNO BEE

last updated: August 24, 2007 04:02:44 AM

THE FRESNO BEE

FRESNO -- There's no making sense of it.

A second son from a Clovis family has died fighting the war in Iraq, leaving the community -- indeed, folks all over the country -- wondering at the cruelty of such loss for one family.

A Clovis pastor and friend of the fam-ily offered one explanation. "Good people experience bad consequences because of evil," the Rev. Tim Rolen said.

Army soldier Nathan Hubbard, 21, who was posthumously promoted to corporal, was killed in a Blackhawk helicopter crash in northern Iraq on Wednesday......
 
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