Yeah, I also knew a guy on the same forum I was talking about earlier that was killed in Iraq. He was a part of the 82nd Airborne in the US Army.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=15487139
Kind of weird. You don't know the people personally, but you certainly feel emotion when you learn of their death. You can build strong relationships over the internet without ever having met the person.