Relatives of men killed by Mob focus on their lives, not as they died
He had grown up in this sleepy, the woody part of central Florida, but left Scott Helvenston adventure as a hungry teenager, he made sure his life was never boring.Absolutely not.
Before that Mr. Helvenston traveled to Iraq to ensure the safety of American convoys of trucks, he was a Navy Seal. A team of animation, parachute jumper and producer of videos extreme fitness, education, movements such as “Dive Bomber push-ups. A coach of Demi Moore in the movie “GI Jane” and a participant in the “Combat Missions,” a television reality shows that simulated rescue operations behind enemy lines.
With his derring-do, a sense of humour radiant: M. Helvenston, one of four Americans killed Wednesday and fired through the streets of Fallujah, once built a chimpanzee in another reality show, “Man vs. Beast. He won, of course.
“He glorified the strength, dexterity, speed, flexibility, balance, determination and tenacity,” said Helvenston ’s younger brother Jason, his mother was outside the house shade trees on a impasse. “Scott had a way of touching a person’s life with pure energy.
For all of Leesburg on the road to Big Island of Hawaii, the families and friends of Mr. Helvenston dead and the other men, all employees of Blackwater USA, struggled for a mixture of shock, disbelief and raw, emotion and writing on Friday. Many have tried hard not to think about how cruel the ambush, and instead believe, all possibilities of men - M. Helvenston, Jerry Zovko, John Wesley Kealoha Batalona, and Michael Teague - she was proud.
It was not always easy, though.
In Willoughby, Ohio, Danica Zovko said, it needs to images, much of the rest of the world saw images of the festive crowd, it is estimated that the mutilated remains of his son, Jerry Zovko, by streets. Just not now, “she said. Not yet.
“I want to it,” she said of the apartment, she communicates with her husband, Jozo Willoughby, a middle class suburb of Cleveland.
In Hawaii’s abundant and isolated Waipio Valley, where John Wesley Kealoha Batalona, 48, a retired Army Ranger, lived with his wife, June, and daughter, Crystal, Mr Batalona sister, Uilani Shibata, said he was worried that he saw, in Iraq.
“He said he was so sad, because there are many children there is also”, she said. “He said he uses to give them money to go buy food or whatever.”
And in Clarksville, Tenn.. Johnny Masters, gecoacht, wrestling with Michael Teague in Kenwood High School, said Teague, 38, had never talked about the threat of its work in Iraq.
“I know he knew the risks,” said Meister. “But I also know that his heart. It is what he felt like he had to be done. ”
It was created with a clear vision of what the future of the Middle East, and its place in it, as Jerry Zovko, recently dismissed Army Ranger, went to Iraq in September, in the hope that his military training, he useful, relatives said.
Mr. Zovko had wanted to cause a doctor during his Freshman Year at Ohio State University, a relative said. It was a visit to his parents’ country devastated by war in Croatia, all of a sudden that he has inspired the school to divorce after a year and promotion in the army.
At the High School, Mr. Zoyko was low and the class clown, although he had a solid student, parent said. It was in the years that followed, he sprouted to his full height and developed the hulking body, it also effectively in military operations and beyond. But it was not just muscles. In the army, he became an expert on language, care in Spanish, Arabic and some Japanese, on top of Croatia, he learned from his parents.
Mr. Helvenston, another brawny type with a chiseled jaw and ruggedly glamorous smile, spent 12 years as a Navy Seal, recruited when he was 17. His father died in a car accident, as Mr. Helvenston was 7, and from there he was the father figure in his household, his brother said. He had two children of his own, 14 and 12, where he escalation of the beach and close to their country Oceanside, CA
Although Mr. Helvenston was hidden in operations such as poetry, his brother said, when he did not quite risky for them to be proud of. It was, after all, a man who broke both legs in a parachute jump tent again, walk to the fall of vision unbetreuter, Jason Helvenston said.
“He sometimes felt he never served his country because he could not meet enough,” said Jason Helvenston “That’s why he went to Iraq.”
Members of the Zovko clan, they do not yet know whether Jerry Zovko’s Band, six feet four frames of the two institutions tied on a bridge over the Euphrates River. They are rings with sadness and indignation, side by side with the desire to forgive, based on their Catholic faith.
“We can not of hatred,” said Zovko. “Hatred is a sin.”
But there is anger beneath the surface.
“Whoever did this was less than animals,” said Jure Zovko, 29, Jerry Zovko’s cousin. “They read the texts, you read and children took part. When the parents of these children learned to hate, as the latter, we think, “What makes their future? “”
Asked how members of his family is without doubt of how his brother died, Jason Helvenston reported, they are not something to be felt in the direction of the deadliest yet, the place has been thought and opportunities for Mr. memorialize Helvenston. They also planning his funeral, Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell.
“We do not want a politics of the issue at the moment,” he said. “We want to spread love for Scott right now and not hatred against others.”
The Iraqis slaughtered and then burned the vehicles of four men were riding, M. Helvenston said: “We hope you understand that, for any of these hatred, but only for the supply of food in their country.
Mr. Batalona, has two brothers and six sisters in a region of Hawaii, where 1000 feet of waterfalls tumble from sheer cliffs and wild horses feed on fallen mangoes, Iraq began to walk with Blackwater last year, said his sister.
Like many of the region, he likes to fish reef fish with a throw net, “said Shibata and hunt wild pigs, goats and sheep. Mr. Batalona had lived Pa’auilo, one of the old rural sugar plantation, towns dot the Big Island’s northeast coast, she said. He had previously lived in Savannah, Ga., said Shibata, and again after his retirement.
“I’m crazy,” she says. “He is the brother of my baby.”
Scott Helvenston, E-mail to his family Monday, said his brother. “He said that safe, and everything was happening in order, there was nothing to fear.”
Wednesday, his mother, Kathryn Wettengel, remained Up All Night, call Black Water, to determine if their Scotty was among the dead. Two days later, she remained behind the curtains gekräuselte their house and waited for her grandchildren and, in the hope that others would not be realized.
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