I just returned from the memorial service for SFC Bradley Charles Fox held here in the Chapel at Ray Barracks in Friedberg. I did not know SFC Fox...but he was one of our own.
SFC Fox was a platoon sergeant with 1st Platoon, C Company, 1-36 Infantry Battalion.
Two junior sergeants stook and gave tribute to SFC Fox. These two had at one time served under SFC Fox's leadership. Their tributes painted a picture of a man who lived the "mission first" ethos of a true Soldier, a man of uncompromising standards when it came to ensuring those in his charge were trained to the highest standards. They paid his leadership high praise.
And I was reminded that many carry more than the title of Soldier. SFC Fox also carried the titles of Son, Brother, Husband and Father.
Go read his story.
I sent the Army a long-haired, pot-smoking beach bum with no direction, and I got back an absolutely wonderful young man," his mother, Pat Dartt of Adrian, said Wednesday after she finished writing her son's obituary and prepared to spend the weekend with relatives.
She said her son was a "wonderful human being."
"He wasn't just over there for himself," she said. "He was over there for you and I and everyone else."
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