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#1336685 - 04/05/12 10:50 AM
Ithaca Marine dies of wounds
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Ayuveda
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Ithaca Marine, 21, dies of wounds from Afghanistan
Benefit dinner for family will go on, organizer says
Ithaca Journal/Rachel Stern and Matt Hayes
Apr. 4, 2012
Ithaca -- Christopher D. Bordoni, the Ithaca Marine corporal who was critically injured in Afghanistan, died Tuesday night. He was 21.
Cpl. Bordoni died at the San Antonio Military Medical Center, where he had been receiving treatment since January. His wife, mother, father, brother and sister were by his side when he died, said Robin Webb, his mother-in-law.
Cpl. Bordoni is being brought back to Ithaca and will have a Marine Corps military service, Webb said. There are no further details at this time.
"The community support has been heartfelt and very, very much appreciated by Chris and his family," Webb said. "He is a true hero."
Cpl. Bordoni was injured in January while serving in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, according to a statement from his family. He was sent to a hospital in Germany, and was then transferred to the San Antonio Military Medical Center to receive treatment.
He grew up in the Ithaca area and graduated from Ithaca High School. His mother, Carol Sprague, lives in the Village of Lansing, and his father, Tim Bordoni, lives in the Town of Ithaca.
Cpl. Bordoni joined the Marines after high school and was deployed to Afghanistan for a second time in April 2011. According to his family, he was on patrol in the Kajaki district when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle entered the area. It was reported that several civilians, military personnel and police were injured and killed, according to the family's statement.
Since Cpl. Bordoni was injured in January, there has been an outpouring of support from the Ithaca community. Several fundraisers to support the Bordoni family have been held. In February, more than 1,200 people filled the Eagles Club and raised nearly $40,000 during a spaghetti dinner.
A benefit scheduled for April 21 will still go on as planned, said event organizer and family friend Ted Townsend. "There's no quitting when we're halfway up the stream," he said. "We're doing it for the family, for his memory, for his honor."
Having the community come together can only help the healing process, Townsend said. In the face of tragedy, "there's no better place than this town."
Businesses donated more than $14,000 in prizes for a raffle, with tickets still being sold. The chicken for 1,000 dinners has been donated, along with most of the other food and supplies. The meal is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. April 21 at the American Legion. All funds raised from the $7 meal will benefit the family, with the funds going to an account at Tompkins Trust Company set up to benefit the family, Townsend said.
"Just to have people you don't even know come out and support the cause," Townsend said, will help. "We just want to help the family heal."
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#1337680 - 04/11/12 11:22 AM
Re: Ithaca Marine dies of wounds
[Re: Ayuveda]
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VM Smith
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I saw Christopher Bordoni going home last evening, down North street, and West Main, through Dryden. Home to Ithaca.
The giant flag, the PGR, the many, many cop cars, fire trucks, ambulances, and other emergency vehicles, representing many communities, which had turned them out to honor him.
Dryden has only about 1800 people, and it was clear that a large portion of us were there, in the cool, gathering dusk, to say goodbye.
I've had plenty to say about the mission, and about the emptiness in the heads and hearts of the elites who sent him, while themselves remaining safely in Washington. I'll have plenty more to say; it's this old vet's remaining duty to what America should stand for.
But this is not the place or moment for that. It suffices to say that, while it's a mere abstract, geopolitical game to them, to me it's about that somber procession, and about the similar ones the Afghans must hold. It's about people like Christopher, who answer their call, and do their bidding, from the noblest of motives.
Welcome home, Christopher, and Godspeed on your journey. You depart far too soon...too young. For you, the war is over at last....rest in peace.
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The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
John Hay (1872)
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