“Every Day I Think of Them”
“I saw him on June 19th at a police station in Kandahar where both our teams stopped to do a battle handoff,” Malave said. “We stood there for 45 minutes talking and laughing about good times.”
Two days later, Seabrooks, 36, was killed by a roadside bomb along with two other New York National Guard soldiers, Spc. Anthony Mangano, 36, of Greenlawn, Long Island, and Sgt. Nelson Rodriguez-Ramirez, 22, of Revere, Mass.
Three months later, Malave got promoted while home on leave.
“That night quietly in my bathroom, I thanked Seabrooks for his recommendation and shed tears again for my friend – who even in death helped me out,” Malave said.
The above is just a snippet from a much larger article that shows one view of what it means to serve, but importantly what it means to lose comrades while serving. Read the entire article at; http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/warzone/2008/11/every-day-i-think-of-them.html
