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Steven Ray Givens

    
Monday, May 16 2005 @ 08:18 AM EDT
Contributed by: tomw
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Individuals USTuscaloosa News -- A 26-year-old soldier who was killed in Iraq by insurgents on Mother's Day was remembered as a man who loved and helped children of the war-torn country.

Army Spc. Steven Ray Givens "made a difference in their lives," Ron Pierce, the chaplain of the Mobile County Sheriff's Office and the local FBI, said in his eulogy on Saturday.

Givens' funeral service with military honors drew several hundred people to the Gospel Lighthouse Independent Holiness Church.

Pierce noted that Givens had volunteered to serve his second tour of duty in Iraq so he could serve his country and help the children on the streets. "He said, `I can do something,' and he did do something," Pierce said.

Givens often asked family and friends from his hometown to send him Mardi Gras beads and candy for the kids in Iraq.

As Givens' mother, Joyce McDuffie of Mobile, wept uncontrollably, Pierce told the audience, "Memorial Day has come early to Mobile, Alabama."

Many area residents showed their support during the funeral procession, standing with hands over heart in front of their homes or along the roadsides or bowing their heads. Mobile firefighters and law enforcement officials also lined the route, many of them saluting as the procession passed by, and firefighters hoisted a huge American flag along the route.

At the entrance to the cemetery, Givens' flag-draped casket was loaded onto a horse-drawn caisson. Led by a bagpiper and a drummer, members of the family followed on foot as the procession moved slowly through the cemetery to the grave site.

At graveside, Army Brig. Gen. William Jacobs, the deputy commanding general at Fort Rucker presented the Bronze Star and Purple Heart to the soldier's mother and to his wife, Cayssia Givens, of Columbus, Ga., as both women wept.

Cayssia Givens and her husband had only been married for three days when he shipped out for his second tour of duty in Iraq.

A six-member rifle squad from Fort Rucker fired three volleys in salute to the soldier, and a bugler concluded the ceremony by playing Taps.
 
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Steven Ray Givens
Authored by: anonymous on Friday, May 27 2005 @ 11:36 AM EDT
My heart goes out to his wife.
Steven Ray Givens
Authored by: anonymous on Monday, October 03 2005 @ 09:34 PM EDT
Steven,
I would like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for our Country. And to your family, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

"Can Do"(15th Inf. Motto)
Steven Ray Givens
Authored by: anonymous on Monday, May 08 2006 @ 12:40 PM EDT
It has been one year since you lost your life in service to our country. Many more have died since your death, but you are not forgotten. My prayers extend to you and your family on this anniversary of your death.
Steven Ray Givens
Authored by: anonymous on Tuesday, August 08 2006 @ 10:44 PM EDT
From one of your battle buddies from 1-15 from OIF 1 when I heard about your status and I went into great shock. I had lost a good friend and I will never forget you.
Steven Ray Givens
Authored by: James Van Thach on Saturday, October 20 2007 @ 02:16 AM EDT
I wanted to extend my condolences to your family and let them know that you are greatly missed by your military brothers. I remember when he was in my platoon when I was a First Lieutenant in Charlie Company 1st Battalion 15th Infantry Regiment.
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