Freedom Has Its Cost
They will always be heroes, because only heroes can give so much. And we will always remember those gifts that they ultimately gave.
The Price of Freedom from Chuck Holton on Vimeo.
On August 16, I posted a blog called “They Call them Heroes” about a medevac mission to Wardak province. On that mission, two men from the 101st Airborne were killed and three more wounded in an IED blast during a combat resupply mission. I related that the dead are referred to over the radio net as “Heroes”, and rightly so.
Later, I found out that the hero who was carried back to Bagram Airfield on my aircraft was a 29-year-old 1st Lieutenant named Donald C. Carwile. Donnie was formerly a policeman from Oxford, Miss., and joined the Army because he believed it was the honorable thing to do. Donnie left Jennifer, his wife of four years and two daughters, ages 3 and 5.
I told the story of this mission when I was asked to speak at a church in Columbus, Ga., a few weeks ago. For that service, I put together the above video from that mission. Donnie’s feet are the last thing you see.(source)