Rest in peace, Nick Alden, United States Air Force.
May God welcome you home.
Posted on 03/03/2011 9:13:49 PM PST by smokingfrog
Cathy Garner was worried that her son Nick Alden would be in danger in Afghanistan.
Alden, a U.S. Air Force airman, didn’t make it to Afghanistan. He died Wednesday when a gunman whom authorities are describing as an Islamic extremist began shooting on a bus at an airport at Frankfurt, Germany. Alden was 24.
Garner got the news in a telephone call from her ex-husband, who told her that their youngest son charged the gunman after seeing him fatally shoot the bus driver. At least 10 airmen dressed in civilian clothes were on the bus at the time of the shooting, according to media reports.
“I don’t know all of the details, but apparently he was instrumental in keeping the other people on the bus safe,” said Garner, who teaches English at Starr-Iva Middle School.
Besides his parents, two older brothers and a younger sister, Alden is survived by his widow, Trish, and their 3-year-old daughter, Lilly, and 1-year-old son, William.
(Excerpt) Read more at independentmail.com ...
My heart is so heavy over this. I have no words. Only the whispers of my heart which go to God.
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
Rest in peace.
This mom whispers amen to your post.
RIP
SrA Nicholas J Alden, USAF
did dumbo have any comments on this in the press???
This goes out to all those who believe that people join the USAF to advoid combat: In the war on islam, there is no rear area. EVERYONE is in the line of fire. Even us people sitting at home on our laptop.
God bless everyone brave enough to join any branch of the military.
Thank you for posting that. I get rather tired of that attitude, even when said in jest. Air Force Security Forces especially.
Nah , TOFUS is concentrating on the NFL lockout, his NCAA bracket and gay sensitivity training schedules. Oh and how to upgrade the border patrol with not only bean bags but after talking with Calderon, REFRIED bean bags.
Prayers to the family. RIP
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