I just got wind that a friend of mine was killed in Afghanistan. He was twenty-one years old, a new father, a husband, a brother, a son, and a truly amazing friend. Accepting the loss as an actual loss is difficult, considering the loss was a result of giving to an entire nation. A boy trying to escape a hometown island full of alcohol, drugs, and jail, just to walk into another unforgiving light.
I hope for wellness for all of the other soldiers who have made it to this moment, the ones who were once fighting alongside Ryan and the ones who aren't. May every step you take be followed by another.
RIP Ryan Lumley
May 1990 - December 2011
Only the good die young. <3
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