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In Memoriam 2019
Last year I ceased writing an end-of-year memoriam for passing celebrities and sports figures in favor of remembering those much less famous, but far more necessary. Here is my tribute to this year’s heroes…
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Thank you.
Well done, EJ.
Beautiful, EJ. We hear their names, perhaps see their pictures, and then they disappear in the wind. How special to be able to stay with their bravery and our loss for just a few moments. Thanks.
After the video was uploaded the Pentagon announced another casualty just hours ago:
Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Goble, 33, died Monday from injuries sustained during combat operations the day prior, Army Special Operations Command said in a statement. Pentagon officials said the incident is under investigation.
Goble was a senior intelligence sergeant assigned to Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group, which is based out of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. This was his third deployment to Afghanistan, in addition to deployments to Argentina, Guatemala, Colombia and South Korea.
Thank you, that was very appropriate and way more significant than celebrities. I was struck by the youthfulness of the faces. Sigh. God bless.
Paying attention to the headgear tells you a fair amount. In the Army, lots of green berets and a couple of tan ones: Special Forces and Rangers.
The last photo is of a legend, whose full effect on our national security will likely never be told because it is so classified:
CTICS Shannon M. Kent’s name is engraved on the NSA’s wall of cryptological heroes who died as “They Served in Silence.”
What can be told now is told in “The Legend of Chief Shannon Kent.”
Read the rest. This, oh by the way, was a late Gen-Xer, one of those people dumped on by the left for lacking the right kind [leftist] of ideological zeal.
Thanks so much for this look at work that is going on every day without our knowledge. So sad to lose her.
Thank you for that EJ. Truly meaningful for me and mine.
Outstanding, EJ. Thank you.
Well done EJ.