this was the post yesterday, i put on FB:
honoring our veterans at tippecanoe veterans day observance at the old train depot in Lafayette… riehle plaza LTC Richard Shockley, USAR a member of our church, Grace Lutheran led the ceremony, the school children from St. James Lafayette, made cards and went around the crowd, handing them to the veterans and thanking them for their sevice to our country…
this pic was inside the old train depot, the kids from st. james lutheran standing in the back…
very moving Thank you to all of our veterans…GOD BLESS YOU!
and david’s pastor joshua cook saw it and recognized the name of the guy that was LTC Shockley, turns out they served together in iraq back in 03-04, this was joshua’s response:
Mike, you will have to ask LTC Shockley if he remembers his Lutheran SGT from Iraq. Major (back then) Shockley and I were in the same unit and deployed to Iraq together back in 2003-04. What a small world! Tell him I say hello, and that I did go on to become a pastor after all!
this morning i called LTC Shockley to tell him about this and he was very pleasantly surprised and couldn’t talk highly enough of pastor cook… he did tell me a story about when he was over there, he said his humvee was hit and he said joshua could have been in that driver seat, but because circumstances… only God knows why, he wasn’t….his humvee was hit and the driver was killed…… God had other plans for Joshua Cook and now my kids are getting to reap the benefits of having a most amazing man as their pastor. LTC shockley was hurt in the humvee along with 5 others who sustained injuries… i remember praying for him in church:) thank you LTC shockley and pastor joshua cook…. for your sacrifices over the years for our freedom
mike and i have for years been going to these services where ever we are, we just feel we have to take time out of whatever we are doing to pay our respects to all the veterans
mike talked with this veteran afterward and found out he had served in the pacific and in germany in WWII
