I am fortunate enough to have had this passed along to me in an email. The email asks to “please pass this along,” so that the tribute can be seen by all my “email friends.” Well, I can do one better than that. I’m making a post out of it. No more words are needed to add to this Marine’s mother. So, here it is…enjoy.

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.
(March 2, 2006)

Karla Comfort received a lot of looks and even some salutes from people when she drove from Benton, Ark., to Camp Pendleton, Calif., in her newly-painted, custom Hummer H3 March 2. The vehicle is adorned with the likeness of her son, 20-year-old Lance Cpl. John M. Holmason, and nine other Marines with F Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division who where all killed by the same improvised explosive device blast in Fallujah, Iraq, in December.

For Karla Comfort, having the vehicle air-brushed with the image of the 10 Marines was a way to pay homage to her hero and his fellow comrades who fell on Iraq’s urban battlefield.