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Today, it was confirmed.

Matt is gone.

Matt Maupin was a student of mine when I lived in Ohio–such a good kid, so laid back, so nice. They identified his remains in Iraq today after a four year wait by his family and friends. What a loss. What a terrible, sad loss.

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pnkrckkdd 1 #
US | 1 year, 8 months ago (1 minute after post)

u okay?

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fengshuisweetheart changed the tags on this post: they were "Iraq, friends, Ohio, Family, student, Matt, laid back, Today, depression, kid" 1 year, 8 months ago.

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fengshuisweetheart 2 #
Grand Rapids, MI, US | 1 year, 8 months ago (3 minutes after post)

yes, teary-eyed, but okay

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fengshuisweetheart 2 #
Grand Rapids, MI, US | 1 year, 8 months ago (4 minutes after post)

I just feel for his family. They have waited, hoping…

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pnkrckkdd 1 #
US | 1 year, 8 months ago (8 minutes after post)

I know how you all must feel
he’s in a better place no doubt
I know he’ll be missed
don’t cry I think you should celebrate his life instead of grieving over it
but thats my only opinion I don’t know him
but thats the way I would want it.

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fengshuisweetheart 2 #
Grand Rapids, MI, US | 1 year, 8 months ago (18 minutes after post)

Thank you….and at least his family finally knows for sure instead of always wondering.

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~LazyDaze~ 242 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (23 minutes after post)

wow 4 years..?
That is a long time to be waiting and not knowing, at least now they finaly have some closure to this although I don’t think it will make it any better to deal with.
So sad..

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Girlnextdoor 0 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (44 minutes after post)

ow…
be strong mate

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (54 minutes after post)

Sorry to hear about the loss. Now at least friends and his family know the real thing. May his soul rest in peace.

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Felicity 18 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (1 hour, 57 minutes after post)

Thats awful hun.I’m so sorry for your loss.May God be with you and all who knew him.

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PomPom 2 #
GB | 1 year, 8 months ago (2 hours, 21 minutes after post)

another casualty of a war we werent sposed to be fighting in the first place, i dedicate this song to Matt, whoever you are, you believed in what you did or you wouldnt have been there but sometimes we shouldn’t believe what our rulers tell us

Original on YouTube.com
i hope it works

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (2 hours, 24 minutes after post)

I could not finish the video. I am crying.

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PomPom 2 #
GB | 1 year, 8 months ago (2 hours, 25 minutes after post)

you are not alone, i cant listen to this without crying my heart out and hating the people that tell us this is neccessary, why dont they go die first and we may believe them

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Setto? 5 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (2 hours, 41 minutes after post)

horrible.
how many more is it going to take for people to realize?

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fengshuisweetheart 2 #
Grand Rapids, MI, US | 1 year, 8 months ago (3 hours, 42 minutes after post)

PomPom wrote:
another casualty of a war we werent sposed to be fighting in the first place, i dedicate this song to Matt, whoever you are, you believed in what you did or you wouldnt have been there but sometimes we shouldn’t believe what our rulers tell us

Original on YouTube.com
i hope it works

You are so right Pom Pom. Thank you for the video!

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Sans 57 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (7 hours, 11 minutes after post)

i’m so sorry, sweetheart. war is a terrible thing. those four years must have been awful for his family.

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just.another 0 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 8 months ago (13 hours, 5 minutes after post)

god bless him
im not religious, not sure about god, but bless his soul.

~Shie~ 9 #
Gloversville, NY, US | 1 year, 8 months ago (15 hours, 57 minutes after post)

i saw this on the news yesterday… and its so sad that all this time there was no answers to anything… and his family had to wait such a long time for closure…

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fengshuisweetheart 2 #
Grand Rapids, MI, US | 1 year, 8 months ago (15 hours, 58 minutes after post)

♀lil_bit_shi♀ wrote:
i saw this on the news yesterday… and its so sad that all this time there was no answers to anything… and his family had to wait such a long time for closure…

You certainly understand that feeling of waiting. I hope that you’ll soon have a happy ending!

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fengshuisweetheart 2 #
Grand Rapids, MI, US | 1 year, 8 months ago (15 hours, 58 minutes after post)

Thank you everyone!

There is a video of his mom and dad on cnn.com: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2…

They’ve aged a lot since I last saw them, understandably so.

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~Shie~ 9 #
Gloversville, NY, US | 1 year, 8 months ago (16 hours, 16 minutes after post)

fengshuisweetheart wrote:

♀lil_bit_shi♀ wrote:
i saw this on the news yesterday… and its so sad that all this time there was no answers to anything… and his family had to wait such a long time for closure…

You certainly understand that feeling of waiting. I hope that you’ll soon have a happy ending!

thank you hun… but the knowledge of knowing that they are still alive keeps me going.. in which this case.. there was no knowledge.. so its a bit of a difference.

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fengshuisweetheart 2 #
Grand Rapids, MI, US | 1 year, 8 months ago (16 hours, 41 minutes after post)

True.. it is different.

They were actually quite hopeful that he might be found alive,though, because several months after the initial video by his captors, when everyone was starting to whisper quietly to one another, “he’s probably dead”, his captors released a second video of him talking. I think that is what made them more hopeful despite the odds. When I visited their town 2 years ago, everyone was still wearing little photos of him with yellow ribbons. I think that’s why this is still somewhat of a shock to them.

Anyway, thanks for the reply!

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elizabethnotes 1 #
Macomb, MI, US | 1 year, 8 months ago (2 days, 15 hours after post)

Four years… I cannot imagine.
It still shocks me when I realize how long we have been there.

I start to wonder if all the death helps anything at all…
lives are supposed to make a difference, death should be so much more than that.

I am truly sorry to hear of the loss.

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Sanni 1 #
Birmingham, A7, GB | 1 year, 8 months ago (4 days, 21 hours after post)

I am so sorry to hear Feng, and there is not a lot to say, except that I hope you will find comfort and peace with what has happened. Sometimes there are no explanations just events. However, the good news is that you can be there for his family and know that there is a lot of love in the world even when such terrible things happen.

Anonymous #
1 year, 8 months ago (6 days, 6 hours after post)

such terrible things which wouldn’t happen if soldiers didn’t exist and we minded our own business except when OUR country was threatened

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