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26 May 2008 11:37 pm
A Father's Son
A memorial for the last hour of Memorial Day:
On May 1, I started wearing a red memorial bracelet in honor of Marine
PFC Brandon Sturdy. PFC Sturdy was sitting next to my son in the back
of a Humvee on May 13, 2004, when an IED went off just outside
Fallujah. PFC Sturdy died in the blast; my son was seriously wounded,
but came home and recovered. The difference for those two young men,
and their families, was about the distance traveled by a half turn of
the Humvee wheels.
My son, a Navy corpsman, was the last person to attend to PFC Sturdy.
He did so with his uniform still on fire, for which he received a Navy
Commendation Medal with Valor designation, along with a Purple Heart.
Everything I could find out about PFC Sturdy is in the little memorial
below. When someone dies at the age of 19, there often isn’t a lot to
find out.
May is the month of my son’s birth, Brandon’s death,
and Memorial Day, which we’re celebrating today. It’s an appropriate
time to put on the bracelet.
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