Posted on 12/03/2010 6:26:01 AM PST by deoetdoctrinae
A year and a day after undergoing ground-breaking surgery for wounds suffered in an attack in Afghanistan, U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Tre Porfirio, died Nov. 28 from complications of the same injury.
The Knoxville-born serviceman's father, Karl Porfirio, said Thursday that the past year "has been rough."
"I keep calling him a boy, but he's a man," Karl Porfirio said, his voice cracking. "He's my boy, but to everybody else he's a man. A senior airman in the United States Air Force."
The 22-year-old airman will be buried today at the East Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery.
(Excerpt) Read more at knoxnews.com ...
You gave your life defending us. Go with God, young man.
What a handsome young kid and a real hero.
RIP in the mansions of the Lord.
Sadly, that entire country is not worth one drop of this young man’s blood.
For that matter, the entire middle east (minus Israel).
RIP.
RIP .
Thank you for the link.
No sweat - rare to USAF get shot like that - then the commo troop caught my eye.
Not just door kickers getting it now.
Prayers for the family - we got our son back and we thank the Lord each day for that miricle...
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