On January 13th of this year, Soldiers' Angels lost one of its heroes, PFC Gunnar D. Becker. To all the Angels (and others) who knew him, Gunnar was someone special. He was only 19 when he was killed defending freedom for others.

Over on the SA Germany blog, earlier this month, Maryann posted a poem by Angel Amber. She put into words what a lot of Angels felt, a keen sense of the loss of this special Hero.

And then an amazing thing happened yesterday in the comments section:

Comment from: debey senska [Visitor]
I Am Gunnar's MOM!!!!THANKYOU!!!!for the wonderful poem...please contact me.....debey
08/16/05 @ 11:02

And as if that wasn't enough,

Comment from: Dianna [Visitor]
I am Gunnars Grandmother...thanks so much for the beautiful tribute to his memory. It is still hard but we must go on..he died doing what he felt was right and that is what keeps me going..we miss him so much..love always Dianna and Dean..
08/16/05 @ 15:04

Gunnar's mom also left a link to this site, started by members of Gunnar's platoon to honor his memory: http://www.b263bandits.com/memorial.htm. I've added a link to that page in the "Fallen Heroes" section to the left.

Please visit the SA Germany blog, read the poem, and leave a message for Gunnar's family in the comments section, to let them know that we remember.

Labels: Fallen Heroes, Gunnar Becker