Former U.S. Army infantryman Dane Partridge died from injuries sustained during a Russian attack in Luhansk.
Partridge joined a military unit that included several volunteers from other countries, Corry said, the men mostly relying on interpreters to communicate.
“As a family, we really like that picture of the vehicle — it speaks to the bravery of how they tried to save their men, and the way they pushed that vehicle to its last leg just to get to the hospital,” she said. “It speaks volumes.” By the time he’d graduated high school, Partridge had grown into a gregarious man with a booming voice and a joking personality, she said.
He didn’t talk a lot about his experiences in Iraq, but she knew some of it weighed heavily on him throughout his life.“He was a Humvee driver, and when he was training they told him that as the driver if he tried to save himself his men would likely be killed, but if he saved his men then he would most likely be killed,” Corry said her brother told her. “That was something that sat deeply with him.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Partridge felt a need to help the Ukranians. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and believed that he was being spiritually called to join the fight, she said. “He believed it with every fiber of his being, and he wanted to honor his God,” she said.
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