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issue 10 february 5 2007
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Effects of Iraqi violence can be seen in our own community after the death of former East student Ian Anderson
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Ian Anderson’s death in Iraq wasn’t a nameless, faceless number. His death wasn’t something that just happened halfway around the world. His death wasn’t easy to ignore. His death hit closer to home. Sgt. Ian C. Anderson lived in Prairie Village and attended East for his freshman year and half of his sophomore year in high school. He was killed on Jan. 15 in Mosul, Iraq when a bomb blew up near his Humvee. He had just turned 22-years-old the week before and had been in Iraq for only a few months. “He wanted to change something over there,” Ian’s sister-in-law sophomore Tara Mason said. “He wanted to do something for the little children.” Ian didn’t go to Iraq because he believed in the fight – he went because he was sent there. He had joined the Army initially because it paid for his college. But once he went to Iraq, he made it his mission to change the world for the Iraqi children. “He was one of the only guys that would hand out candy to the little boys and girls in Iraq,” Tara said. “One day I guess he didn’t have candy so he started handing out money and he started giving them ones. He ran out of ones, so he started giving them tens, and when he ran out of tens, he started giving them twenties.” Ian gave out almost $250 that day. He told his wife, Tara’s sister Suzanne Anderson, that
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he had done it to help the little kids who needed school supplies and that he hoped she wasn’t angry with him. But Ian was too friendly to be angry with. “He was like a 15-year-old trapped in a 22-year-old body,” Tara said. “He loved to have fun. He just liked to be at home. He was a more homey person.” Tara remembers the days that she spent at home with Ian, ever since she met him when she was in third grade. Kicking a soccer ball around outside. Watching him play “Halo 2” or “The World of Warcraft” and talking to him the entire time. Wrestling and trading fake punches. “He was the big brother I never got to have,” Tara said. “My big brother right now, he doesn’t do anything with me that Ian would do with me.” Ian and Suzanne had actually met through their brothers – though Suzanne had graduated from East in 2003, they had never met at school. Their wedding also showed Ian’s love for the simplicity of being with his family. They married at the courthouse, Ian standing tall in his military uniform and Suzanne in a white dress spattered with black polka-dots. Afterward, there was a tiny reception at Ian’s mom’s house. continued on page 3
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