Taking One Person's Life Away, and Yet Starting a Whole New Chapter in Another's

Death.
How often do we honestly consider what that word can mean?
Normally, pain, sorrow, depression, and emptyness.. are the result of having a loved one taken away from you... but in that same line of emotions, determination, pride, and longing for redemption can find a way to blossum.

Today, I met a person who seemed to be feeling just that. His name was Ryan, and he was so self possesed by the thought of redemption, that he has decided to put himself on the line to honor his deceased father. Let me tell you the story that he told me:


Mr. Davis was always in the light of the family as far as war stories go. Never was one of his tales ignored niether were they taken lightly. They could not be. Each one provided the deep sorrow of losing a friend as well as the brutality that leaves war veterans shaking their heads in utter pain. He was a ranger, serving in the army for well over ten years. Although Ryan was only a little tyke at the time, he still recalls the aura of facination and fear that each story left behind.........

... When Ryan was only nine years old, he and his family waited merrily at home for Mr. Davis's most recent return from duty. Days went by, and as the family sat looking out the window, expecting him to walk up the steps any second, the phone rang... Ryan still remembers as his mother picked up the phone and heard Mr. Davis's brother and corperal Timothy on the phone. " I could hear him crying on the other side of the phone; the suspense was so thick," recalls Ryan. Timothy choked on his own words as he explained to Ryan's mother the RPG that blew Mr. Davis's life away...

Four years later, Ryan has taken it upon himself to head into the army and obtain redemption for his father. From the one hour that I spent talking with him, I've been able to come to the conclusion that this is his lifetime goal: Going after the terrorists that killed his father.

I've never seen somebody so determend to pay retribution to the murderers that stole his father, his hero. And I will never forget Ryan Davis.