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Houston Chronicle Feature:
Soldier
gave life for cause
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SPC Gertson
Area soldier's luck runs out in Iraq
09:12 AM CST on Monday,
February 21, 2005
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The flags and ribbons have been flying proud around the Gertson property for
what seems like forever.
They have never meant more than they do now. "From under the truck I was working on, I saw a car I didn't recognize. Then I saw their uniforms and I thought, 'Oh God', " says Gayle Gertson.
KHOU-TV
Spc. Clint Gerson was killed in Mosul, Iraq, by a sniper last Saturday.
The Army had come to Gayle and Susan Gertson that their son, 25-year- old Specialist Clint Gertson died Saturday from a sniper's bullet in the Iraq town of Mosul.
This family had heard from the Army six months before, but that time, it was a phone call to their home in Eagle Lake, in Colorado County.
"We thanked the good Lord and figured that if that was his time, that's when he would have taken him. We didn't know it was just a warning," says his father.
That warning was the suicide bombing of the Army mess hall in Mosul.
Clint took shrapnel through his back and the men all around him were killed. His Captain had been sitting right next to him and two Sergeants were sitting across the table.
"We thought 'whew, that's it, he is gonna be fine'. So when this happened, it just knocks the breath out of you. You don't understand because they are so young. He had his whole life ahead of him," says his mother. Just like his brother Matt, who served a year near Baghdad.
"I came back and my brother didn't make it. It's kinda tough you know. Knowing what he was going through. But it was all for the better cause," his brother says.
The Gertsons' reminders are everywhere, inside and outside.
But this family hopes others see what Clint would want them to see in the yellow ribbons, and the red, white and blue all around.
"He said 'Dad, you just tell everybody that freedom is not free', " says his father.
To the Gertsons, it was a price worth paying.
The family has had a steady stream of support from friends and family since they were notified of their son's death.