Remember Our Heroes
Army Sgt. Mark A. Stone, 22, of Buchanan Dam, Texas
Sgt. Stone was assigned to the 94th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Polk, La.; died April 28, 2008 in Baghdad of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his forward operating base with indirect fire. Also killed were Pfc. Adam L. Marion and Sgt. Marcus C. Mathes.
Army Sgt. Mark A. Stone remembered
The Associated Press
As a teen, Mark A. Stone wanted a swimming pool in the backyard.
His family couldn’t afford it — Stone’s mother had died a few years earlier, and a back injury kept his father, Don, out of work.
So Stone began to dig. Two years later, four feet down, he hit rock.
Even if the pool was just a dream, he grabbed a pick ax anyway, just to try.
Stone, 22, of Buchanan Dam, Texas, was killed April 28 in Baghdad of wounds from indirect fire. He was assigned to Fort Polk and had served a year in Afghanistan.
“I’m proud of my brother,” said his brother, Jason Stone. “He died for his country. I’m sure all his friends and family are going to miss him.”
He loved tinkering with his truck and was known to listen quietly, with a somber expression.
“He chose his words wisely,” said Zane Lewis, Stone’s best friend. “He would never talk just to talk.”
Lewis described Stone as the guy who once helped him, without a word of complaint, unload an entire truckload of printers for Lewis’ family business. It’s the kind of thing Stone was always willing to do, Lewis said, seemingly just for the chance to hang out.
Army Sgt. Mark A. Stone was killed in action on 4/28/08.
2 comments:
To Mark Stone: Soldier, It was a pleasure training you and the rest of the platoon. Mark, you was a great soldier. A quiet listener indeed, but paid great attention and absorbed every detail. Soldier, you are greatly missed. You service may have been shortened, but your contribution from day one until was enormous. I am proud to have been your NCO, mentor and fried. We will all see you with our boots tightly fastened brother, when we muster in that formation in the sky.
You were truly a Soldier and a man of outstanding character. You will be missed by many. We pounded the same roads and loads together. You never complained. You always help your fellow man.
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