Marine LCPL Michael Smith Jr.
August 25, 2024
Army PFC Kenneth Souslin
September 8, 2024
Condolences from Legacy.com
Was looking though the North Charleston High yearbooks, came across your photo, and that “I’m up to something” grin! I can remember turning around in class and you and Mike Duty giving me that look, then a ball of paper would come flying by. 
I knew it was you! Can still hear that laugh. We all love and miss you. Mike and I chat about you often, lots of laughs cause that is what you made us do all the time.. North Charleston High School, North Charleston SC ~ Tammy Drawdy Johnson, Sumter, South Carolina
Dear Solomon Family – I want you to know that I am very sorry for your loss and I think about him all the time. I served with your son in Iraq I was his medic. I want you to know he was a great Marine and will never be forgotten. I wish I wrote to express my sympathy years ago, but I am still dealing with the loss. I will never be able to feel your pain. I hope that you can forgive me.
“Gordon was my Platoon Sergeant during his tour spent at Twentynine Palms with 3rd LAR Bn before the war. I was one of his team leaders. Thinking back, we really made some good memories with that platoon. He always made the tough times bearable. He proved this to me again–years later in Fallujah, Iraq–when I ran into him aboard Camp Mac–by pure chance–in passing at the chow hall. I remember that night he let me watch some TV in his hooch and we joked around remembering our time spent together in Twentynine Palms and Okinawa in reference to where we were then. This time spent was a couple days before I participated in a lengthy combat operation where my unit suffered many causalities. His jokes, advice and a night spent chillin in front his TV, which he had kindly shared with me, helped me make it through the operation that would follow. I will always carry with me his memory as an outline for what good men and true leaders are made of. He always used to tell me he was going to retire and fish all day on some lake in South Carolina, and that is where I will always imagine him to be: happy and fishing, at peace.” Sgt. Jason Zoesch (USMC) of Kailua, Hawai
