God Bless This Family

From Texas Fred
What can you say but God bless them and thanks to that family for raising sons with that kind of courage and conviction of will.

It's a crying shame that those boys were killed...we morn every loss, but thank Him that they lived and were able to do what they did.


Texas Family Loses Both Sons to War - R.I.P. Soldiers
July 26th, 2006
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Less than two years ago, Roy Velez got the worst news a father could get: His oldest son was dead, killed during combat in Iraq.

This week, his pain only deepened with news that his youngest son had died in Afghanistan.

Military officials notified the Velez family Tuesday of the death of Army Spc. Andrew Velez, 22. His brother, Army Cpl. Jose A. Velez, 23, died in November 2004 in Fallujah when his unit came under fire while clearing an enemy stronghold.

“I can’t be angry. I feel like my heart’s been pulled out,” Roy Velez said Tuesday. “We’ve done what the Lord allowed us to do for our country.”

The family lost its only sons; there is one daughter.