AR-News: US - Families seek ways to honor soldier sons

[Orville A Knudsen]

Families seek ways to honor soldier sons
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/1003/19terror.html;COXnetJSessionID=1R2WuyzCVeK8Gik5Wd6UtFwvkVjdDO1zgPnd82DM1fM1d3yk6Jl6!-1477600317?urac=n&urvf=10665303904080.5946253325442628

QUOTE:

They were moments from landing in a potential hot zone near the
Afghanistan border. The swirling sand was blinding. The Army Ranger squad
inside the Black Hawk helicopter tensed.

Spc. Jonn J. Edmunds, Pfc. Kristofor T. Stonesifer and three other
soldiers on their first mission unhitched their safety straps to assure a
quick exit so they could create a defensive perimeter.

...

A 25-year-old Kris, who had become a vegan, an outdoorsman and sort of a
drifter, listed several goals. He wanted to "freely create, letting my
mind flow like a pulse through its own corridors, uninhibited by
constrictive thoughts."

He wanted to "find out who I am or continually create who I am." Another
goal was to "join the Army, become at least a Ranger."

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