We must never forget
NotaSuv
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Special thanks to all those who served .................
A special thanks to Robert Frantz a great young man I had the pleasure of working with and mentoring before he enlisted to better his life..
You will never be forgotten my friend......
Robbie was a teen with a abusive past.....no real family, on his own very early in life...we had him in a spare room for 6 months so he save a little....was there with him when h
e signed up...the "greatest day in my life" planned to really turn his life for the positive...wanted to go into law enforcement...enlisted to serve his country..give his daughter the life he didnt have..........now excuse me while I wipe the tears from my keyboard....
still and always will shed tears for this wonderful solider
San Antonio soldier killed in Iraq grenade attack
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO From Operation Iraqi Freedom, a Central Texas soldier told of his nights spent in the charred remains of one of Saddam Husseins palaces and days spent guarding the Central Bank of Baghdad.
To Robert L. Frantzs family, it appeared the 19-year-old high school dropout with a 2-year-old daughter and plans to marry had matured quickly since joining the Army and then going overseas for the war in Iraq.
He wanted his daughter to be proud of him, said his stepfather, Vincent Smith, a Lackland Air Force Base firefighter. He grew into a man strictly overnight, by joining the Army. He was a little scared, but excited. He knew he was going to do good things.
But Frantz died June 17 as a result of a grenade attack the previous night, according to Phil Reidinger, a spokesman for Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.
Frantz, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry, was hit with shrapnel while he was standing guard duty. An unknown assailant threw the grenade over a wall in the Iraqi capital.
For the San Antonio native who joined the Army 10 months ago and his family,this was supposed to be a happy week on the heels of the Spurs NBA championship, said Frantzs mother, Kim Smith.
Instead, the family spent the day coping with the death of Frantz, an Army private first class.
We thought the war was over, his mother told the San Antonio Express-News. I told him, Be careful. Watch your back. But I had no thoughts that there would be this.
Frantz was about 4 when his father died. His family moved a short time later from Michigan to San Antonio, where he attended elementary and middle school. He attended Marshall High School, then withdrew and earned a General Educational Development diploma.
Later while waiting tables at an International House of Pancakes, Frantz met the woman he would eventually makes plans with to marry, Ana Perez.
His daughter, Shannon, 2, is in the custody of her mother, who lives in San Antonio and has remained close to Frantzs family.
Frantz also had a 22-year-old sister, Heather Frantz, and a stepsister, stepbrother and a 3-year-old brother, who is too young to understand the tragedy.
Hes been telling us, Dont be sad, Robbys coming home, Vincent Smith said.
Died:
June 17, 2003
A special thanks to Robert Frantz a great young man I had the pleasure of working with and mentoring before he enlisted to better his life..
You will never be forgotten my friend......
Robbie was a teen with a abusive past.....no real family, on his own very early in life...we had him in a spare room for 6 months so he save a little....was there with him when h
e signed up...the "greatest day in my life" planned to really turn his life for the positive...wanted to go into law enforcement...enlisted to serve his country..give his daughter the life he didnt have..........now excuse me while I wipe the tears from my keyboard....
still and always will shed tears for this wonderful solider
San Antonio soldier killed in Iraq grenade attack
Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO From Operation Iraqi Freedom, a Central Texas soldier told of his nights spent in the charred remains of one of Saddam Husseins palaces and days spent guarding the Central Bank of Baghdad.
To Robert L. Frantzs family, it appeared the 19-year-old high school dropout with a 2-year-old daughter and plans to marry had matured quickly since joining the Army and then going overseas for the war in Iraq.
He wanted his daughter to be proud of him, said his stepfather, Vincent Smith, a Lackland Air Force Base firefighter. He grew into a man strictly overnight, by joining the Army. He was a little scared, but excited. He knew he was going to do good things.
But Frantz died June 17 as a result of a grenade attack the previous night, according to Phil Reidinger, a spokesman for Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.
Frantz, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry, was hit with shrapnel while he was standing guard duty. An unknown assailant threw the grenade over a wall in the Iraqi capital.
For the San Antonio native who joined the Army 10 months ago and his family,this was supposed to be a happy week on the heels of the Spurs NBA championship, said Frantzs mother, Kim Smith.
Instead, the family spent the day coping with the death of Frantz, an Army private first class.
We thought the war was over, his mother told the San Antonio Express-News. I told him, Be careful. Watch your back. But I had no thoughts that there would be this.
Frantz was about 4 when his father died. His family moved a short time later from Michigan to San Antonio, where he attended elementary and middle school. He attended Marshall High School, then withdrew and earned a General Educational Development diploma.
Later while waiting tables at an International House of Pancakes, Frantz met the woman he would eventually makes plans with to marry, Ana Perez.
His daughter, Shannon, 2, is in the custody of her mother, who lives in San Antonio and has remained close to Frantzs family.
Frantz also had a 22-year-old sister, Heather Frantz, and a stepsister, stepbrother and a 3-year-old brother, who is too young to understand the tragedy.
Hes been telling us, Dont be sad, Robbys coming home, Vincent Smith said.
Died:
June 17, 2003
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Robert Frantz, thank you. R.I.P.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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Robert Frantz gave it all .RIP..Thanks for shariñg.Sal Palooza
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