Wednesday’s Hero’s
Welcome to this week’s installment where all the member bloggers of “Wednesdays Hero”, found in my sidebar and theirs collectively honor many of the real hero’s found in this country who’s names and bio’s have been provided to us for these humble tributes by blogroll creators Indian Chris @ Right Wing and Right Minded along with partner HooahWife
Many of our soldiers featured here are those that have paid the ultimate price for this country, protecting it both at home and abroad from the many threats we face from our enemies wishing us and them harm, and some are not.
In either case they are the real American heroes of today and we now honor both the fallen and the enlisted with this feature week after week and thanks for reading and supporting these fine men and women.
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Chicago Ray
Today we saluteSgt. Christian E. Bueno-Galdos
25 years old from Paterson, New Jersey 3rd Battalion,
66th Armor Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade May 11, 2009
On Mothers Day, Eugenia Gardos made a tabletop shrine to her recently deceased mother surrounding her photograph with silk roses, a small white rosary cross, two votive candles and a prayer card of Senor de los Milagros, the patron saint of Peru.
The next day, May 11, she added her son’s picture to the shrine for the dead.Sgt. Gardos was killed along with five fellow servicemen; Army Spc. Jacob D. Barton, Army Maj. Matthew P. Houseal, Navy Cmdr. Charles K. Springle and Army Pfc. Michael E. Yates Jr. in the attack on Camp Liberty.
“The first time he left for Iraq, when they would read the lists of the dead on the news, we used to hold our breath, praying he wasn’t on it,” his mother said. “I don’t understand how he could have died this way. I just don’t understand it.”
Sgt. Galdos had emigrated with his family from Mollendo, Peru, as a child and had been a U.S. citizen since high school. His mother, two older brothers and older sister recalled how he used to hand out candy to children in Iraq the same way he always did in Paterson never making a trip to the corner bodega without a group of neighborhood children tailing behind, knowing he would buy them candy or a soda.
“We were all here at home,” Carlos Bueno, Sgt. Galdos’s father, said. “I was getting ready to go to bed when I heard screaming downstairs. I ran downstairs and everyone had thrown themselves to the floor, thrashing around, screaming.”
Bueno said he does not feel bitterness toward the man accused in the shootings, whom he described as “mentally ill.”
“We want people to know we’re proud of our son’s Army, but if my son had died in war we would be able to handle that,” he said. “But not to die in this manner.”
All Information Was Found On And Copied From MilitaryCity.com
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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