Shawn Ryan

But it was just a shock to my system, all of the first bag, you know, the duffel bag with your name stenciled on the side of it.

And I picked that up and it just, holy cow.

Man.

Now I know where he went.

He went to SOG.

Like my friend had told me,

You know, a couple of days before, don't volunteer for SOG.

You're a dead man walking if you do.

And then, you know, here's your stacks all of a sudden.

I'm sorry.

And I log on and there's an email from Brian Bourgeois, who was in our company.

And it said, I'm sorry about Brett.

I was like, what?

scroll down, and it was a forward of a newspaper article.

And Brad, my roommate, tripod, he'd gone in the Marine Corps and finished TBI, or TBS, the basic school.

He went to base school, then infantry school, and he was down in Camp Lejeune, and he was a rifle platoon commander getting ready to deploy to Iraq.

He and a bunch of his friends, including his best friend from high school and a fellow wrestler, Kevin McCann, they all met up and went to a North Carolina State football game for opening day.

And they were tailgating and a car came ripping through the parking lot.

And everybody was throwing stuff at the car because they were speeding.

And the car came to a screeching halt right in front of the Marines tailgate.