Documentary on the AT - need help with providing info

[SGT Rock]

I got an e-mail from the Japanese version of PBS.. They are working on a documentary about the AT and are looking for some information about the AT. One of the things they asked me was about a past hiker who was also a Marine and was one of the first casualties of the war. I have to admit I do not know him, but apparently he may have been a past AT hiker or thru-hiker. So I am looking to see if anyone out there knows him from the trail.

His name is Lt Terry Shane Childers (I think he went by Shane). Here is a link that includes pictures of him: http://www.citadel.edu/pao/newsrelea...ane_ctnow.html

Other than that, I think they may be at Trail Days - so be on your best behavior.

[Smile]

SGT, check your PM's.

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

::: dino erects 12-foot privacy fence around Billville :::

From the history at the link, this fellow must have hiked the AT back in the late 1990's? Here are links to the pics of him -- maybe someone here will recognize him:
From 2001
Another pic
Senior pic from high school

[SGT Rock]

SGT, check your PM's.

I don't see any new ones.

[fiddlehead]

One of the things they asked me was about a past hiker who was also a Marine and was one of the first casualties of the war. .

I wonder what war they're talking about? WWII, Vietnam, Korean, Gulf or the present one? If it's WWII, that should make the job of finding out something about him a little easier perhaps?

[Frolicking Dinosaurs]

I wonder what war they're talking about? WWII, Vietnam, Korean, Gulf or the present one? If it's WWII, that should make the job of finding out something about him a little easier perhaps?

From the article "a Marine lieutenant killed during the opening hours of Operation Iraqi Freedom, shot in the stomach while leading his platoon in an assault on a pumping station at the Rumeila oil fields of southern Iraq." and "Shane was born in West Virginia in 1972"

[Trail Yeti]

I didn't know Lt. Childers....but I went to ARS with Capt. Hutchison....how random is that?

[SGT Rock]

6 degrees of seperation dude.

[hammock engineer]

I remember reading something here about someone who put on presentations at either a gathering or TD who did not make it back from Iraq. I'm not sure, but this might be the same person.