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Dear families and friends of our heroes,
I'm offering this web site as an opportunity for everybody
to continue to remember and support our enlisted loved ones. I invite you to submit a jpeg photo and a brief story
of your fallen hero. By offering our stories, I believe we can begin to understand and appreciate our tremendous losses. The
motivation for this endeavor is extremely heartfelt. My two sons, Nicholes and Kristofer, chose to enlist in the Army
upon their graduations from high school. Nicholes left for boot camp in September 2004 and deployed to Iraq in March 2005.
He returned from that tour of duty in early 2006. Kristofer, graduating from high school early, started his boot camp training
in February 2006. Kristofer strived to one up his brother. He trained as an Army Ranger. He became one of the youngest
recruits to accomplish this goal 17 years old. Kristofer was then deployed to Afghanistan in January, 2007. He was killed
in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on February 17th of that year. I was notified of Kristofer's death on February 18, 2007.
After this painful news:
It would
be easy to say that February 18, 2007 was the hardest day of my life, but in all honesty I'd have to say there isn't a day
when the pain is so overwhelming that I have to push myself just to put one foot in front of the other. While my boys were
deployed, I was an avid news watcher listening carefully for the daily casualties and feeling sorry for the families of the troops
killed. Only after Kristofer's death can I even begin to understand the pain those families and friends have felt.
I have become a Proud Gold Star Mom. I
believe it is my duty to help our communities not forget the sacrifices that our servicemen and servicewomen have
made for the ongoing freedom we so cherish in this country.
Never Forget Our Fallen will hold an annual; Military children's Christmas party and a red, white and blue memorial event to honor all those who have served our country and those we have lost and to support our servicemen and servicewomen who put their lives on the line each and every day.
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