God's story, your life.

Unfolding short stories.

Memorial Day is approaching.

And today we have a story that helps us pause and remember.

Not only for those lost in combat, but for the quiet casualties, where the fight lingers

on well after the fight in the war zones. Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome.

Maybe you've heard of these moments where chemicals were introduced to human bodies at levels

that are unthinkable. Today, Walt, a Navy veteran and a hospice chaplain,

is going to tell us about someone who recently lost his life to cancer

at a very young age due to his exposure of burn pits.

But it's not just a story about loss.

It's a story about courage, grace, and finding faith.

I'm a Navy veteran and a hospice chaplain.

And with Memorial Day on the horizon, it makes me reflect and think back to service members

that I've known personally that have passed line of duty.

I know in my early days in the Navy on deployment, we had a couple of individuals that we lost out of our ship's crew and was firsthand with that and the things that went on there.

But what's really on my heart today is actually a young man that I just met recently

who was on hospice services with the hospice group that I'm a part of.

Typically, with hospice, people are older.

And so anytime we get the phone call and the news is that the person is younger, that's always challenging, and this particular instance was very challenging.

To protect privacy, I will call him Keith.

And Keith was a 33-year-old Army veteran with cancer that had been determined to be

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