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Ezra Dawson, Fallen Hero: Honoring our Son’s Namesake on Memorial Day

May 29, 2013 by Aprille 31 Comments

The amazing story of us establishing contact with the family of our son’s namesake, a fallen soldier.

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Posted in: Ezra, Fatherhood, Military and Veteran Life Tagged: Afghanistan, deployment, ezra, KIA, Memorial Day, sacrifice, SGT Ezra Dawson

This is our life

July 24, 2011 by Aprille 2 Comments

In just the last 24 hours… In a conversation with a friend, we talked about the two separate times that her husband has been injured this deployment alone due to IEDs. The first time he ended up with shrapnel in his arms…the second he had a head injury and a leg injury. We talked about … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Military and Veteran Life Tagged: army life, blessings, deployment, KIA, laura story, military life, PTSD

Ezra Kurt…the significance

September 30, 2010 by Aprille 3 Comments

It was very important to both Russ and I that our child’s name be a name that not only did we both like, but also something that had significance to us, and a significance that we could pass on to our child. A name with meaning.

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Posted in: Ezra Tagged: Afghanistan, baby, baby names, deployment, Ezra, Ezra Dawson, KIA, kurt, name, SGT Ezra Dawson

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