He was an avid sportsman who loved soccer and the outdoors. But he also loved his country. On Wednesday, he died in Iraq.
Adam McKamey Wenger, 27, was the second Charleston-area soldier to have lost his life in the war on terror in about a month.
The circumstances are unclear and his family does not have many details. He had been in the Army for about eight years and leaves behind a wife and two young children.
His older brother spoke Thursday of someone who made sacrifices.
“He was a good kid,” said David Wenger, 31. “He loved his country. He wanted to serve his country. He wanted to do his duty.”
The motto of the Miltary Order of the Purple Heart is:
“All gave some…some gave all.”
Many have died for freedom of speech, not to be censored…I always think of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice when I see any form of censorship.
I read it all. Thus I was reminded that at least 4,191 US soldiers have died in Iraq so far, including this daring and brave young man whose mother, it’s reported, raised the family herself. Then I linked to the school he had attended, and thus discovered an enthusiastic independent recommendation that they have an outstanding pre-school program one should hope to get one’s child on the waiting list for. Perhaps he and his wife has been able to put their child in this program. Thank you for posts like this one, Kendall, even though now my eyes are moist thinking of his valuable life shortened and in suffering, his mother’s heart’s pain, the grief of his young family, sense of loss in his school community….. .
Can it really be that this soldier and the thousands of others have died for……for freedom protecting the right of affluent American women to take the lives of their unborn children (all the while calling them ‘fetuses’), and wealthy white men in NH to claim a right to sexual activity with each other with the [i]imprimatur[/i] of a once-admirable Christian denomination? It is quite beyond my comprehension to handle such cognitive dissonance.
And so I’m left firmer than ever in my resolve that whether or not I am so fortunate as to live some of my later years back in the US, somehow I must find ways to pay homage to the brave fallen, and to help where those they left behind may have been inadequately provided for, or rendered incapable of dealing with their loss. I must pursue the ways to confirm that they have not died in vain.
…or Bishop Bruno to call us all ignorant…or [the Presiding Bishop] to change the nature of faith…or TEC to change the definition of marriage…I despise the behavior of those trivialize the sacrifice of those who fight for freedom…the freedom is cheap crowd has always taken advantage of these brave men and women who venture so much for much more important things…
Names edited
Caleb – For the second time of asking please use the correct names or titles of individuals appropriate to their office and avoid ad hominem comments
Do not call us out again – Elf
What these soldiers have done is voluntarily set aside many of their rights and options as citizens to serve others, to serve a higher cause. This is an honorable form of self-sacrifice–indeed it is the very highest form of service–regardless of whether we are good stewards of their legacy. But, as TACit points out, we owe them more than a debt of gratitude, we must look after those they left behind. And we must act in ways that reinforce and perpetuate the ideals they gave their lives for.
Please excuse my typos…I really didn’t intend to misspell anything here or in my other post…
Elves, you might want to lighten up in lieu of this thread.
Moving so quickly to censorship dishonors the very people we are all attempting pay tribute here…and whose sacrifice we are taking seriously…
Caleb