Thursday, August 26, 2010

No greater love hath a man

A grateful nation salutes you, Private Benjamen Chisholm.

God rest your soul, and may He bring peace to your family, your wife and your unborn child.


Fredricksburg honors war casualty
By Zeke MacCormack  - Express-News

FREDERICKSBURG — Army Pfc. Benjamen Chisholm's family celebrated his life and mourned his death Wednesday, recalling him as a free spirit and their go-to guy.

“He was always so energetic and happy, no matter what,” nephew Julian Frolov said of Chisholm, 24, who died in Afghanistan with a fellow soldier when a roadside bomb flipped their vehicle Aug. 17.

During the service at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, tears flowed freely for the fallen soldier, whose bride of five months, Amber Chisholm, is pregnant.

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