Soldier could not endure more pain, wife saysBy Jeff Karoub - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Jun 5, 2008 5:58:45 EDT
DETROIT — Lana Waldorf spent two hours Wednesday morning poring through a “lifetime of photos” of her husband, Lance. The images brought to her mind his love for God, family and country that he sought to share at home and a world away as a soldier.
But as she reflected on his 40-year life and death Monday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at a veterans’ cemetery, she also knew he could not share his deep suffering with those closest to him.
“His desire to be at peace in heaven was greater than the thought of enduring any more pain,” she said of her husband, a major in the U.S. Army Reserve who twice had been deployed to Afghanistan and soon was expecting to receive orders for a third deployment.
Police say a caretaker at the Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly Township, about 40 miles northwest of Detroit and not far from the Waldorfs’ home in Bingham Farms, discovered Lance Waldorf’s body in full military fatigues with a handgun next to him.
Also beside him was a note, his will, a backpack and photos of him with his wife, family members and friends, according to Michigan State Police Sgt. Gary Muir.
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