Fouty, then a 19-year-old Army private first class from Walled Lake, was one of three U.S. soldiers abducted a year ago today in an insurgent ambush about 20 miles south of Baghdad. His mother still jumps when the phone rings, praying for any update, any news.
"I don't know if he's alive or dead," said Hilary Meunier, Fouty's mother, in a phone interview from her home in Texas. "I can't put closure to it."
Fouty remains missing, and for his family here and in Texas that has meant living the past year in a kind of tormented limbo -- waiting for word on the search, waiting for a happy ending, waiting for their hopes to be realized, or waiting for their ever-present fears to play out.
"I've never experienced the feeling of waiting so intensely or for so long, in my life," wrote Sarah Dibler, his 18-year-old half sister, on a MySpace page dedicated to her brother.
In the ambush near Mahmoudiya on May 12, four U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi translator were killed, and Fouty and two others taken captive. Along with Fouty, Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass., remains missing. The body of one of the captives, Pfc. Joseph J. Anzack Jr., 20, of Torrance, Calif., was found after the ambush.
Just a reminder, carter never lost any hostages.
I'll bet none of them has ever killed any Americans after they got out either. I'm sure they are all men of peace and love.
Question is, were they a threat back then? I'm betting now some are, like that kuwaiti Bush turned into a suicide bomber.
We have enough enemies, Sniper. We really don't need the Fuckup-in-Chief creating any more.
Of course, after they kill an American, they can go on the Bush payroll as an Iraqi Concerned neighborhood Jihadist or one of Osama's posse in Pakistan.