Who Do You Mourn Today?

On 25 June 2009 1st Lt. Brian Bradshaw was killed in action in Kheyl, Afghanistan. He died from wounds sustained when in improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.

1LT Bradshaw was 24 years old from Steilacoom, WA. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska.

1LT Brian Bradshaw is survived by parents, Paul and Mary (Gillis) Bradshaw; his brother, Robert Bradshaw; his grandmothers, Nancy Gillis of Hudson, Massachusetts, and Virginia Bradshaw of Parsons, Kansas; and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. Preceded in death by his grandfathers, Charles Bradshaw and John Gillis, and his aunt, Cathy Gillis and uncle, John Bradshaw.

Who do you mourn today? The King of Pop? Farrah Fawcett? Or do you mourn a March of Dimes participant who volunteered with the Pierce County Search and Rescue before joining the United States Army after ROTC. This former leader and counselor at CYO camps was ignored and forgotten by THIS nation when he lost his life fighting with OUR nation's military.

This soldier will never forget you 1LT Brian Bradshaw.

(8 OCT 1984 - 25 JUN 2009)

Army Spc. Joshua L. Hazlewood died June 25, 2009 serving during Operation Iraqi Freedom 22, of Manvel, Texas; assigned to the 614th Automated Cargo Documentation Detachment; died June 25 in Arifjan, Kuwait, of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident.