Welcome to this week's installment where all the member bloggers of "Wednesdays Hero", found in my sidebar and theirs collectively honor many of the real hero's found in this country who's names and bio's have been provided to us for these humble tributes by blogroll creators Indian Chris @ Right Wing and Right Minded along with HooahWife.

Many of our soldiers are those that have paid the ultimate price for this country, protecting it both at home and abroad from the many threats we face from our enemies wishing us and them harm, and some are not.

In either case they are the real American heroes of today and we now both salute and offer our prayers to both them and their loved ones. To join us if you wish to please start by reading the post below.

Army Spc. Jeffrey A. Williams,
20 years old from Warrenville, Illinois
Support Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
September 5, 2005

SPC. Jeffery A. Williams was killed in action when an IED was detonated near his combat patrol in Tal Afar, Iraq.

Your time with us was far too short
Dealing with your loss will be hard,
When I think about what this world has lost
I want to just shut out the world and cry,
But I will not do that.
Because you gave your life for something much greater than you or I
So, I will remember you as the Hero that you are
And never let what you did in your life cut short be forgotten
And that is the best way I know to honor you

This is the AP article /Obituary from the local Newspaper regarding spc Jeffery Williams and his untimely death in Iraq defending freedom for Iraqi's and the world in general with the U.S. Army.

FORT CARSON, Colo. - A soldier who went to high school in Illinois and was assigned to Fort Carson has been killed in Iraq, the military announced Thursday.

Army Spc. Jeffrey A. Williams, 20, a 2003 graduate of Wheaton Warrenville South High School, died Monday in Tal Afar when an explosive device detonated near his combat patrol, the Defense Department said.

Williams, who his mother said was a combat medic, was assigned to the Support Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, based at Fort Carson.

Williams, the oldest of four boys, enlisted in the Army just days after he graduated from high school, said his mother, Sandra Smith of Mansfield, Texas.

"He was a leader, he wasn't a follower," said Smith, whose family moved to Texas after her son joined the Army. "The boys are really having a hard time. Every last one of the kids is having a hard time because they really looked up to Jeffrey."

Williams was born in Kansas City, Mo., and was raised around military bases in California and Maryland. Smith worked as a civilian nurse at military hospitals and several members of Williams' family were in the military.

In his weekly calls to his mother, Williams, who hoped to become a doctor, swapped stories with Smith on treating injuries - including sharing the time he inserted his first chest tube in a wounded patient.

He had been in Iraq since March and told his mother he was looking forward to returning in February.

"He was tired of it, because at first he said everything was peaceful and then the last four weeks they'd gotten rowdy again," she said.

Military officials delivered the news to Smith's Texas home on Tuesday.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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