Aug 17, 2011 / 04:12 am
The Catholic community in Stamford, Connecticut is grieving the loss of 31 year-old Navy Seal Brian Bill, whose helicopter was gunned down in Afghanistan by the Taliban on Aug. 6.
“He was very committed to our Catholic faith” and “was devoted to the people he cared about – his family, his classmates and his country,” recalled assistant principal Diane Warzoha from Trinity Catholic High School.
Bill was also a “reflective, quiet young man who was a very intense, sensitive person” and “always wanted to make a difference for others,” Warzoha told CNA in an Aug. 16 interview.
The Navy Seal was one of 38 people – including 25 American special operations personnel, five Army National Guard crewmen, seven Afghan commandos, and one Afghan interpreter – who lost their lives in the Chinook helicopter crash after Taliban members reportedly hit it with a rocket-propelled grenade.