Father Of Fallen Marine Attends Homecoming

[NATO AIR]

i don't know if i could have done the same...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/15/marine.father.ap/index.html

Father of fallen Marine attends homecoming

Monday, August 15, 2005; Posted: 8:44 a.m. EDT (12:44 GMT)

CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina (AP) -- John Prazynski stood in the sea of welcome home signs and wondered why he was there.

Prazynski's son, Lance Cpl. Taylor Prazynski, wasn't going to be among the 900 Marines from the 3rd Battalion who arrived home Sunday. Taylor Prazynski, 20, was killed May 9 from an insurgent mortar shell.

But his father had promised his son he would attend the homecoming, so he rode his Harley Davidson more than 650 miles from Hamilton, Ohio, to Camp Lejeune.

"I don't have any sort of agenda. I guess I want to thank his brothers for being there for him, and thank his friends for being his friends," Prazynski said.

 

[CSM]

That has to be difficult....