Thank You Sgt. Padgett by Lance Fairchok

"Sgt Timothy P. Padgett, 28, came home today, in a flag draped casket, his life given like so many before him, to the eternal struggle of light against the darkness. He was coming home to a small town in the Florida panhandle, a town that remembers him as a volunteer firefighter who had his Mom drive him to fires before he got his license in high school. He understood at a young age what citizenship means. He was the youngest of three, and his mother calls him her baby. Her heart is broken, yet she respects his decision to serve, and in that heartrending sadness, she is proud of his bravery, his dedication and his desire to help others.
Killed in a firefight in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Sgt Padgett was a Special Forces medic. He almost certainly spent more time helping remote villages and their children than he did the wounded in combat. That is what the Green Berets do; that is what Americans do. I knew all this, yet I was utterly unprepared for the sight that greeted me at the Air Force Base when Sgt Padgett’s casket passed through on his was home."

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