Former Navy SEAL Honors Late Brother in Memorial Day Letter: ‘In Your Death, You Gave Me Life’

A former Navy SEAL penned a touching letter to his late brother, who was not named, in a Fox News op-ed, “🇺🇸Memorial Day 2023: Note on a white stone cross.”

“Just checking in. Looks like some of the other boys have come by today,” Willink wrote about the gravesite, via Fox News.

He noted, “Lots of flowers. Did you ever think you’d be getting a bunch of flowers from guys in the platoon? I sure didn’t.”

Willink shared all of the things he missed about him.

“I wish you could have stayed a little longer, though. I’d really like to see you smile again. Hear you laugh,” he said.

He added, “Your laugh made other people laugh — me included. A little extra joy in the world.”

Willink acknowledged the “joy that is now gone.”

“I miss that. I miss you,” he said.

Willink pointed out that “the world moves on” and “time stops for no man.”

“Look at me. Gray hair. Wrinkled skin,” he said.

He added, “I’m the old guy we used to laugh about.”

John 15:13 says, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

Willink revealed how he originally coped with his brother’s death.