California’s War Dead

    Nicholas D. Eischen

    Nicholas D. Eischen, 24

    Air Force, Senior Airman
    Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan
    Gender: Male
    Hometown: Clovis
    He said, 'Grandpa, a lot of people have blood and everything. But I work through that. I don't think about that. If I get squeamish, I fail them,' and it was all about them.
    — Bob Pinion, on his grandson's job as a medical technician

    Eischen was the the sixth Buchanan High graduate to die in Afghanistan or Iraq. His family was told he died in his sleep.
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    Three memories of Nicholas D. Eischen

    Eischen's brother Drew, an Iraq veteran, who also goes by the name Joey, described his brother as "A sweet loving person, that anyone who came across him loved him."
    Less than four months after burying his brother and being discharged from the Army, Clovis Police responded to a 911 call for an "attempted suicide" and an ambulance took Drew "Joey" Eischen to Community Regional Medical Center where he died less than two hours later.
    Don't forget those that have not survived their homecoming.

    — Fresno
    July 7, 2008 at 6:12 p.m.
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    I don't know this soldiers as I'm just visiting the website. I thank him and his family for his dedication to our county. Thank you for keeping America free and protecting our beliefs. It's because heroes like you my very young daughter will be able to live freely in this wonderful country. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Many your memory never be forgotten. RIP

    — Kevin Gregory
    December 31, 2010 at 2:21 p.m.
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    THANK YOU!!!!!!! For your sacrifice, words do little to describe our sincere gratitude. However, There is a hope for a future where such wonderful people will not have to die in the wars of the world. ISAIAH 2:4 And he will certainly render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore....REV 21:3,4-"death will be no more"

    — brandi
    March 31, 2012 at 10:49 p.m.
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