That was December 8, 1997. Our window of opportunity was gone. Now, Taylor is in heaven with her daddy. Just recently we talked again about trying once more but this time we would have to have a surrogate. My oldest daughter agreed to be our surrogate. Isn't that something? I arranged an appointment October 8, 2003 at the fertility clinic again. Several of my friends wanted to do it but when my oldest daughter came to me and asked if she could do that for me, I just cried. I have two of the most precious girls that God was so generous to give me. What blessings they have been to me in my life. Kirsten is 24 now and Kaylyn is 14. Kevin always thought of Kaylyn as his daughter. Kevin decided if we never had a child again, it would be OK, he had Kaylyn, it made me very happy to know he felt that way. It makes me smile.
I have lost one of my daughters and my husband but God is good to me,
he still continues to bless me through all the darkest hours, he is
still there for me. |
Master Sgt. Kevin N. Morehead was killed in action September 12, 2003 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. He was 33, from Little Rock, Arkansas. Kevin was with the 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group, based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. JUDSONIA, Ark. — Army special forces Master Sgt. Kevin Morehead was remembered September 21 as a man who loved his country and his family. The Green Beret from Little Rock died in a firefight September 12 in Iraq. On Sunday, the family held a private memorial service. Kevin loved his granny's pumpkin pie and was an avid duck and deer hunter and fisherman. He would help anybody at anytime, he’s just one of a kind. Morehead was a Green Berets who helped seek out terror suspects in Afghanistan after the September 11th attacks. A photo on the back of the memorial program showed him shaking hands with President Bush in March 2002 at Fort Bragg, N.C. Morehead was one of two U.S. soldiers killed in a firefight in a pre-dawn raid in the town of Ramadi during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was 33. The soldiers were remembered Thursday at a Fort Campbell, Ky., memorial service. Seven others from the 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group were wounded. Morehead had twenty two days left in the country before he was to return home. Few details have been released about their deaths. The 5th Special Forces Group discretely deploys soldiers around the world, conducting covert operations that often involve living and working with locals. Its motto is “To liberate the oppressed.” Jim Morehead said that the Army told him that his son was hit with a bullet in the seam of his bullet-proof vest, where it velcroed shut. “It was just an unlucky circumstance,” Morehead said, wearing an American flag tie and pin. “He was the first one in the door of that building and he wouldn’t have had it any other way.” Following the private ceremony, Morehead was given a military burial at the Fredonia Cemetery, just north of Judsonia. There his fellow Green Berets acted as pallbearers as a bagpiper played “Amazing Grace.” The soldiers fired a 21-gun salute for Morehead and presented the folded flag atop his casket to his widow, Theresa Morehead of Adams, Tenn., not far from Fort Campbell. She collapsed in tears after receiving the flag. Nearly four dozen flower arrangements, many red, white and blue, decorated the gravesite. One read, “To Kevin, our beloved son and hero. We love you. Mom and Dad.” Kyle Woodson, 16, of Judsonia, Morehead’s cousin, said he looked up to the soldier and that he wants to follow in his footsteps and join the Army. “He was a
good friend and a good soldier,” Woodson said. “I’m
going to join the Army like him to be a Green Beret. He’ll never
be forgotten.”
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