Just Another Hole in the World
Apr 19th, 2007 at 3:06 am by Susie
As another young American is laid to rest:
NORFOLK — Honor, courage, determination, humor, friendship, and faith.
Those are the attributes that Army Sergeant Adam P. Kennedy represented to his brother Colin and six of the soldier’s friends, who eulogized the Iraq casualty yesterday before several hundred mourners at St. Jude’s Church.
“Adam was my best friend and also my hero,” Colin Kennedy said from the pulpit. “He went out and lived his childhood dream.”
When Colin Kennedy was finished and when all the tributes and consolations were over, Kennedy’s relatives, friends, comrades, and neighbors stood at their pews and filled the overflowing church with the sound of a long, standing ovation.
Kennedy, 25, was killed April 8 when a roadside bomb ripped apart his Humvee about 25 miles southeast of Baghdad. A graduate of Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood and Norwich University in Vermont, Kennedy had been in Iraq since October with the Fourth Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division.
