By Emily Bregel
ebregel@timesfreepress.com
Family and friends in Chattanooga are mourning the loss of Sergeant Patrick Durham, killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Saturday.
The 24-year-old Red Bank High School graduate and father of three had enlisted in the military after high school and completed a tour of duty in Iraq, before serving in Afghanistan, said longtime friend Amy Waite of Lookout Valley.
“He was like a little brother to me,” she said in a phone interview this morning. “He was a big goofball. He was always a class clown.”
Waite said she spoke with Durham recently on Facebook and he was eager to get home to see his wife, Kristy, and children.
“My heart goes out to his family. He’s going to be looking over everybody,” she said.
Family members are traveling to Delaware to pick up Durham’s body and a funeral date has not yet been set, Waite said.
For complete details see tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press.