08/23/2022
This is a repost that I feel still needs sharing. Check up on “your boy” more often, pick up when “your boys” call….. take the time to check on one another and deeply listen to how they are doing. It’s not always in what they say (because we all say “no bro, I’m good”) it is what you feel about what he says because you know this man like very few do. Above all else just take the time for time to time. ……
Grant, I have typed this out, only to erase it and try again and again and again....... What I've come to realize is that I just don't know how or what to feel. I am flooded with emotion right now. Swamped with anger and love, sorrow mixed with gleeful reminiscence, betrayal with a dose of failure. Man...... I just don't know how to process this Grant. What I do know for fact is this: we all have a darkness in us that needs to be beat down from time to time. We all battle demons (sometimes hourly) and refuse to ask for support because our greatest fear is failure and calling for help means we can't do it on our own. I don't know where I'm going with this and I'm sure it sounds like the ramblings of a psycho (partially guilty). I will forever remember you as the pinnacle of a Ranger NCO, the single greatest WPNS SQD LDR I've ever seen, a loving father who showed us all what true sacrifice is and one of the most loyal friends a man could ever be blessed with. Two things come to mind as I write this. The time you rolled the strykers to the sound of the guns, drove through a gate and dropped a wall on me in the process (I was glad to see those .50cals show up though) and the time you helped pick me up on the airfield (literally picked me up) and forcibly carried me off the flight deck after a navy crew almost killed me (thanks Philip Waymon for saving my life that night). I hope that the gods see the valor in you and you are feasting in Odin's hall tonight. If not, you are waiting your turn to do it again and prove your worth to the highest cause. Till we meet again my brother!