Friday, November 19, 2010

 Arlington guards bury one of their own

At the funeral Wednesday morning for Army Staff Sgt. Adam L. Dickmyer, many of the soldiers standing by his grave wore a brightly polished silver badge on the right chest pocket of their crisp blue jackets. On their steely faces, the sun reflected the glint of tears. 
The "sentinels," as the guards of the Tomb of the Unknowns call themselves, had come to section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery to salute one of their own.
Dickmyer, 26, died Oct. 28 near Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds caused by a makeshift bomb. He was the first sentinel killed in action in 43 years and the first to die in the fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq.
He was the 12th sentinel interred at Arlington and the third in the unit's history to be killed in combat.
Go to the link and read the entire piece.......... A true America hero is laid to rest.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Adam was a great fuy! I knew him in high school, he was one of our leaders in JROTC. He's gonna be missed. This still breaks our hearts, even the strongest of us