They Have Names

As we approach the Holiday Season, regardless of your belief, this is a time for family; or it certainly should be. 

As we get closer to the Holiday season our lives become filled with the trivial logistics of the season – shopping, parties and travel plans.

I wanted to do something different this year and not become bogged down on the trivial stuff and rather spend some time thinking about something so much more important.

We have young Americans away from home and in harm’s way. They are defending this country from our enemies and helping to create an opportunity of freedom for others. While doing the ugly work of overcoming those that seek to destroy they are building into the lives of young Iraqi and Afghan children a hope that their future will be better than their past. Bringing the hope of freedom that will bring the opportunity to take their lives in their own hands and fill it with joy rather than fear.

One can only imagine what it must be like to be a parent of a young child in Iraq and to look at that child knowing that this child may have a better life than they did. The truth being that their child’s freedom came at the sacrifice of the young men and women of the US military.

As I reflected on their great sacrifice I thought of those young men and women who paid the ulitimate sacrifice and their families who will spend a Holiday Season with an empty chair at the family dinner table.

So to make sure I don’t forget who they are this Christmas season I will profile some of the bravest of Americans, who have given their lives in the service of this country and in the service of freedom – freedom for us and freedom for strangers in foreign lands.

Here is one such hero: Holly McGeogh

The Soft Face of a Warrior Heart

Name:Holly J. McGeogh
Rank:SPC
Service: Army
State: Michigan
Killed on: 31 January 2004

 

A long way from the safety of home

Home! Home! Safe at last never to worry again but how she will be missed.

Welcome Home

 

 

 

 

To the family of dear Holly,

May this season be one of comfort despite your loneliness. May your hearts be comforted in the knowledge that she misses you too; but she understands more than we who still live, for she waits on the other side of deaths veil knowing she will see you again.

Thank you Holly for the goodness of your heart. You deserve to be remembered and one more person knows your name.

For Holly’s full story – please take the time to read it – its worthy of your time – click on this graphic below

Nev and Barbie