My heart is heavy, my head wants to explode, this deployment may be too much at this point. Is it ever going to get easier? Is it ever going to stop? Will I come out of the other end of this without anger, bitterness and feeling defeated? We have another name, not a stranger, not a young man I may have passed in the hallway while visiting Battalion, or maybe a young man that held the door for me while coming to visit my husband. But a name I can put a smiling face too, a person that I laughed with, and who my husband had great affection for. A man with a wife I have spent hours chatting with, who I was really looking forward to getting to know better. Of a young father I witnessed pushing his sons around in a cart at the commissary while finding food to make for his wife while he was home briefly from some training, a man that has left the world with 2 young sons and another on the way, each one that has eyes that look back at me with the gleam of their fathers. My heart is heavy, my thoughts now with Mary, his wife and their sons. Knowing how this is hurting me, and imagining his brothers still in the fight, mourning one of their fierce warriors, one of their brothers, another name for the hero scrolls, but to us not just another name.
RIP SSgt. Leon Lucas Jr. KIA 8/1/11 We will never forget you....
5 comments:
My heart aches for his friends and loved ones. I hope that you will all find peace in light of this tragedy.. : (
i'm so sorry. i keep praying for all of you!
I'm so sorry for his family's loss, your loss, and the unit's continuing struggle.
Sending lots of prayers for his family and those who love him.
My prayers are with his family and the unit at this time. It breaks my heart everytime another post goes up. I took the liberty of asking fro prayers via facebook as well.
I was so sad to hear about SSgt. Lucas. I will be praying for his family and friends.
Post a Comment