Soldier Honored: Delmar White

Army Staff Sergeant Delmar White, 37, of Wallins, Kentucky, was assigned to the 2^nd Battalion, 138^th Field Artillery, Kentucky Army National Guard, based in Carrolton, Kentucky. Staff Sergeant White died on September 2^nd, 2007, of wounds sustained from an improvised explosive device. Previously serving in the Marines, White was also a veteran of Operation Desert Storm.

Sergeant White was a former corrections officer for Lexington Fayette Urban County Government before leaving in 2005 to help recruit for the National Guard. The minister who gave White’s eulogy recalled a story of White wearing his uniform at a Cincinnati Labor Day activity years ago. A man asked White, “Why would you lay down your life for people you don’t even know?” Before Staff Sergeant White could answer, a small boy asked White if he could shake his hand. White then told the man, “That’s why I fill this uniform.”

He was remembered as “a solider of his Lord and a solider of his country.” He leaves behind a wife and their two children.