Mike lost his brother, Army Sgt. Thomas F. Broomhead, on May 27, 2003 (Memorial Day in the United States) in Fallujah. Tom was a sergeant and a Bradley Commander in the 3rd ACR. Tom previously served in the first Gulf War as a Marine and reenlisted in the Army.

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• [Interviewer]: Mike Broomhead lost his brother in Iraq and he says he wants soldiers to know that many people here support what they're doing.

Mike Broomhead: "So I don't have a problem with their opposition. I have a problem with their method and I have a problem with their vitriol. But I don't consider them the majority by any means, at all. I believe that we are in the majority." Special Report with Brit Hume, 9/26/05

• Mike Broomhead, whose brother was killed in Fallouja in May 2003, said that he continued to support the war despite his family's loss. "They are doing fantastic work, not only so that a free and democratic Middle East can provide freedom for us, but also to give that part of the world a taste of the freedom that we've grown up with," he said. Los Angeles Times, 9/25/05

• Many who showed up to support Mr. Bush and U.S. troops, and to question the war protesters, fought back tears while clutching pictures of friends and family members killed in battle. "The loss we feel is with us every moment we are awake," said Mike Broomhead of Phoenix, Ariz., whose brother, Tom, was killed in Fallujah on Memorial Day 2003. "The fact that you can march down the streets of our nation's capital and not wear a flak jacket, you owe that to the men and women in uniform." Washington Times, 9/25/05