[llevrok]

He was a classmate of our daughter's at Pacific Lutheran University. While there, he was in the ROTC. His best friend, Brian Bradshaw, also was ROTC. After graduation Brian also served in the Army in Afghanistan. He was KIA, 2009.

My daughter dated Brian off and on while at university. She described both as the funniest people she ever met. They sat behind her in classes and teased each other like two grade school boys. “It was hard to concentrate on the class because they were so funny!”

Yesterday she told me that if there is one saving grace of this all is that the two “sillies are back together making mischief like the old days”.

Thank you Dom for being my girl's friend and a friend to so many others. A true shining light lost too soon

[Uncle Miltie]

Amen.

[fireman15]

Thank you so much for mentioning this! And I am sorry for your daughter losing two friends. It is the good ones that so often end up in harms way.

I was not close but had worked with a couple of the deputies killed when the gunman ambushed and killed four of them in the coffee shop on Steele Street. My wife and I had been at the Pull-a-part junk yard across the street the day before and she wanted to go to the coffee shop but I took her to McDonalds instead.