Of Memorial Day, loss, friendship and a very important bottle of soda pop. GEDFIELDS has today’s very special AP Virus Diary.
In this April 13 2006, photo, provided by the Lucas family, Marine Lance Cpl. Kevin Adam Lucas poses while serving in Anbar province in Iraq. Lucas was killed in action by a sniper on May 26, 2006, after he switched positions with a fellow Marine and took over the lead position in the patrol.
Since 2010 I have visited section 60, grave 8397 of Arlington National Cemetery nearly every Memorial Day weekend. I was in Africa the one year I didn’t go. This year, a pandemic is stopping me from carrying a Dr. Pepper to the grave of Lance Cpl. Kevin Adam Lucas. Adam, 20 when he died, was their only son and youngest of their three children. Their son had been bound for the Marines, it seems, almost since birth. He enlisted while still in high school and joined the Corps in 2004.In 2006 he was stationed in Iraq’s Anbar province. Kevin said the morning of his son’s death, May 26, his unit was getting ready to go on patrol. The Marine who was supposed to be on point told Adam he was afraid. “That’s all right,” Adam told him.
Then Kevin told me how much his son loved Dr. Pepper. That year, they were not going to be able to make it to the cemetery for Memorial Day. I told him I would take the Dr. Pepper and pour a little over his grave. When I got there, I wept like he was my son.I prayed for Adam and all those young people in section 60. It’s impossible not to feel loss amid those stones.
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