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Main Boards => Prayers/Concerns/Honors/Ailments => Topic started by: Robert Honaker on September 14, 2011, 10:52:00 AM
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Several of you donated hunting vids to my son and other Marines in afghan a few weeks ago and it is so greatly appreciated.
Now I want to ask you for your prayers also....On 9-13-11 @ 10:30 AM Afghan time he was leading his second patrol of the mornig when he stepped on an IED. He has lost both legs from the knee down and sufered bilateral femur fractures, along with losing part of his left pinky.
His friend and Sgt called this morning and said he was awake during the event and in good spirits as he was medivac'd.
I havent talked to him yet. He will be in germany sometime today and then on his way to Maryland within a week hopefully.
He is so very lucky to have survived, but has a long road ahead of him.
Your prayers are greatly needed not only for him , but the family also, especially his mother.
He will be on the ground at Walter Reed Med Ctr in an hour or so. He is on a vent, but no brian injuries. Should be off the vent soon. If he heals well good things are gonna happen...just gotta heal well.
As of 9-28 it has been 15 days since injury. Looking at several months of care and rehab in the hosp. Toady he had his seventh surgery. Fri he will hopefully have his femurs nailed and all wounds closed, but it all depends on his infection. They wont touch it till fever is gone. he is in good spirits and has not complained at all. He is chompping at the bit to get to pt and rehab.
Thanks for all your well wishes and prayers.
10-9-11..had last surgery Monday. Femurs fixed, all tubes out of him, wounds closed and lung is healed. Spirit is great and he is so thankful to have survived. Eating like a horse and working out everyday even though the pain is bad most of the time, although it is dramatically better.
His faith and everyone's prayers have done so much.
Thank you all so much for your thoughts and prayers....
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Prayers sent for strength, comfort, and God's healing.
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Prayers sent for your Family and Son.
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Prayers sent for your son and your family.
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My thoughts and prayers will be with your son and family...
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I'm sorry to hear this Robert. Prayers will be said all day.
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Prayers to your son and you and your family.
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Prayers sent for your son and your family.
We are forever in his debt for his service.
God Bless
Semper Fi
Big C
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I will pray I promise. My son is over there also.
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Not much can be said other than I'm so sorry! :(
No words will help. Prayers are lifted up for your son and all like him who have suffered such indignities and loss!
thank you Lord for sparing this young soldier's life. Now give him strength,Lord, to make the most of the life ahead of him. In your Mercy... amen
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My heart just dropped when i read that. I cant imagine how your feeling, prayers sent
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For sure praying for your son and his recovery, for you, his mother, and family and friends close to him.
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Prayers from Kansas!
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I cry and pray for your son and all those who have been put thru this thing time and time again. I praise God that he spared his life. I burn with a host of emotions that God and I have to deal with alone. I pray your request be heard and fulfilled from our Heavenly Father. All I can say for now is I pray.......Dusty
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I share every feeling your friends have spoken. You are right, he is lucky to be alive. But, he will need courage and the love of friends to make the most of his recovery-as will you, your wife, and your family. There's no doubt he has that support, and strong faith will bring all of you through this terrible ordeal. Our prayers are with you. Tom
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Prayers ent to your son and your family. May God's hands reach him for his recovery.
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My prayers will be with him and the rest of your family.
G-D Bless.
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Prayers sent Robert.
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Dear Lord Jesus,
Be with the family of Mr. Robert Honaker this day & their son injured in Afghanistan. Bring comfort & peace in their time of grief. Thank you for your blessings & the life of Mr. Honaker's son. Bring him through therapy with conviction & courage. Please provide for them all. Amen.
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Prayers and more prayers are sent from Georgia.
In HIS service
Dave
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Prayers on the way...brother, hes on my prayer list....Almight Father we pray...mark
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Godspeed for prayers, confort and healing. So sorry to hear news like this. God Bless you and yours,
James
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Still praying for ya'll. Do you have any more news or any new concerns that we need to lift up for you? Father just hold them close and carry them now as they need you and your touch in their lives.......Dusty
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more prayers, God loves Marines...mark
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My heart and prayers go out to you and your family. May God Bless you all greatly for the sacrifice your son had to make for our freedom.
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Originally posted by Robert Honaker:
He will be on the ground at Walter Reed Med Ctr in an hour or so. He is on a vent, but no brian injuries. Should be off the vent soon. If he heals well good things are gonna happen...just gotta heal well.
Then our prayers are that he heal extremely well, according to God's plan that he may still lead men...perhaps as a solider for Christ in the many ways available!
Keep the Son in your eyes!
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Prayers sent!!!!!!!!!
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his spirit is good. he wants to start rehab now, but understands its gonna be a while.
he's fighting infection and has an injury to his lung that is requiring a chest tube...surgery everyother day.
everyones thoughts and prayers are truly appreciated...
I told him how much people appreciate what he does and he said..."really, they really understand why we do it?"
I quoted a few and he was so happy that people get it.
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Continuing prayers, and some do get it, thank you
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Glad to hear his spirits are up. Prayers for strength and healing!!
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CONTINUE my prayers....down Louisiana way Almight Father hear ou
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Robert, I hurt for you and your family, I get a feeling that your son will come out of this cuz he has a great family and after all is a Marine. As I sit in my stand this season I will pray for your son and family. Your wife must be hurting. Wish I could say something that could help.
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ditto...more prayers Semper Fi///
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Prayers from California
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Prayers sent. Sir you are living one of the things I fear the most. My son is in an infantry unit in Afghanistan now and has been there the past 5 months. I hear from him pretty regularly but when there are stretshes that I don't, I let my imagination drift to the horror you have described. I pray for your son's recovery and healing and peace for your family. God Bless you all for your sacrifice.
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Robert,
Reading your son's surprise at our understanding breaks my heart...and draws me back many years when all were returning from Viet Nam to true hatred and rejection. To live on the edge like that and not KNOW in your heart that others appreciate and understand the sacrifice is gut wrenching to read.
Continue to reassure him that many know and things ARE different now then back then...regardless of what the myopic-minded media says!
Continued prayers for his healing, increasing strength and the undying knowlege of our deepest appreciation!
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Robert, tell him THANK YOU!! Again. If there is anything, besides prayers, we can do, don't hesitate to ask. God Bless your son and your family.
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Father, in your Son's name, please touch this young man with healing, not only physical, but also healing of the emotions, the mind, his spirit as only You can do. We praise you Lord for Your beautiful creation in him, please now strenghten him, so that your Son, Jesus, may be glorified in his healing, his recovery, his belief, his witness, his sacrifice for his country's freedom. Amen
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May God in heaven bless you and your son and help you in the days ahead. I am so sorry for the pain you folks are going thru.
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Prayers sent from R.I.Your Faith Family And God almighty will get you through this.Prayers sent daily.zarch
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Prayers of healing sent!
God bless each of you!
Sincerely in Christ, David Camp
Set the world on fire
Love God
And serve people
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Prayers for your Son and Family.
Butch L
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Prayers from here...
Please keep us updated and if there is anything he needs let us know..
Later....Buzz
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Robert,
I just saw this thread. With two sons in the military this brings a tear to my eyes. I'm so glad he has survived. My prayers for his health and well being and quick recovery and for the wound in your heart.
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more prayers...mark
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Mr Robert, Just a note to tell you I'm still praying for your family as is my church. Could you please tell your son I'm am honored to pray for him and all those like him who do what they do so we can do what we do. They protect not just our country but also the way of life we take for granted sometimes. They protect our right to have a web site that we can come to and share the needs of others and to cry out to our Heavenly Father for all our needs. Freedom is not now nor will it ever be free. It comes at a very costly price that people like your son and all the others who have fought in all the places around the world know only too well. Some gave all but all of them gave something of themselves to protect who we are. Thanks to all of you who read this and have served this country in what ever way you did to insure our way of life.
Father having given your only Son for us you know the pain of such an action. Father please bless all those who have served in the past, present and future this day. Father please keep us mindful of the cost of our freedoms both physical and spritual. God bless us as we struggle to honor you and the ones who do this for us. It is in your Holy name I ask these things this day. Amen.......God bless you and yours.......Dusty
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that was beauitfull rookie, more prayers from Louisiana...mark
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Mr. Robert, do you have any updates on your son that you can share? We are still here and still praying and still very honored to do.......Dusty
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more prayers from Louisiana way...we love you , and pray for you ....mark
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He is going to be up on his first set of legs Wed. if all goes well. He,s been waiting for this to come.
He is working out and rehabbing two hours a day and getting back to his preinjury strength. Looking at a year to 18 months till he gets outta here, but they told him if he wants to run and hunt when he leaves it takes that long.
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Continued prayers from here...
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Tears of joy reading that your Son is making such good progress and is indeed, continuing to show that fighting spirit.
The Lord can work miracles, but he requires a willing soul in which to work. It sounds like your son has a firm grasp on our Father's Son and faith in both!
May he be one of those who can amaze us in the coming months and years as he learns to use his new legs and never tires of striving toward that ultimate goal to rejoin us all in the woods.
Lord in your mercy!
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Amen Doc!
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Amen Doc, well said as usual!!
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ditto....tears of joy...more prayers from Louisiana way...mark
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My heart goes out to you and your whole family, it is obvious that you all share your son's wounds. As a nation, we are blessed to have fine young folks that do not shirk duty's demands. Your son is blessed to have your family around him, the road before him is not an easy one.
Please know that my family will include yours in prayer. There is no meaningful way to thank your son for the price he has paid for us but THANK YOU and may God make the path as smooth as possible.
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Robert, I read your original post for the first time about a week ago and every evening I try to let you know I have your son and family in my Prayers but I got so tore-up I couldn't finish.
These last 10 years there have been so many of our finest men and women lost or grievously injured that it's hard to take anymore.
I can't imagine the emotions of the families going thru it all. I'm so glad that he will eventually be able to return to the things he loves doing.
He is Blessed with a loving family in support of his recovery, and as God spared him I know He will be with him also.
Your family will always be in my Prayers.
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DannyBows..there are many hurt and more coming in everyday. Almost all of my son's unit has been wounded and are now here. His squad is out of commission. Not due to face to face combat, but cowardly IED's.
On a lighter note he is walking a little everyday now. Been on them maybe 6 hrs total and now uses a cain. Things are lookin up.
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Thank you Lord for that "little bit of walking" each and every day!
May your Holy Spirit watch over these young men and women harmed in our defense of freedom and be with them all as they struggle to heal and rebuild shattered lives. Amen
Robert, Keep the Son in your eyes. We'll keep your son in our prayers
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Robert, is there anything we can do to help? Maybe books, magazines, movies or such to keep him busy between therapy sessions.
Let us know.
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As I continue to follow this thread I find myself thinking of all those who are not physically wounded but carry the wounds of war in their mind. You cannot experience combat without coming away wounded from the shear horror of seeing what it does to fellow human beings. Wounds that never heal no matter how much you think you have it together. I pray for these as well and the families who stand with them thru this daily. I know that sometimes it only takes a smell or a word to cast you back into a time that you would like to never go back to. This is another reality that we have to ask God to carry them/us thru. I am proud to know your son and those who have given us so much. I’m proud to know you and your family and even more proud to be asked to lift ya’ll up to our Heavenly Father…….Dusty
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God bless them all....more prayers...mark
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Our prayers and thoughts are with you and your family.
Thank you to your son for his service and sacrifice.
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Your son is acourageous man.I pray he gets stronger.
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This hits to close to home,when I was in iraq we lost alot of great guys,some of those were just like your son and only lost mobility others weren't that lucky,I pray he makes a full recovery but I'm thankfull he's alive,I continue to pray for him.
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Prayers sent!!!!
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Thanks to everyone who offered prayers and thoughts.
He is doing really well. Spending more time on his new legs everyday. From here on its a matter of muscle building and practice. He is able to climb flights of stairs and drives my truck no problem. He uses a cane and scoots along pretty good and is fairly agile in them.
Rehab could last another year and I d say by that time it will be hard for a stranger to know when he's wearing jeans.
He makes jokes about it and seems to be adjusting mentally really well. We get to go home two weeks for xmas. He said he would not go home till he could walk and here we are 3 months post blast healed and walking.
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That is so good to hear Robert. I was just thinking about you and your son today. God Bless and Merry Christmas!
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Continued prayers for your son's recovery and future. Please tell him I appreciate his service and the terrible sacrifice he was forced to make by a cowardly enemy. I also appreciate the sacrifices you are making as a result of this tragedy but, I know as a father, you don't feel it is a sacrifice to care for your son. Our country owes your son and the rest of your family a debt that can never be fully repaid. God Bless you all.
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Wow...excellent! That is so neat to read! What a trooper he is.
Mr Honaker, you tell that son of yours he's an inspiration to us all...and how grateful we are for his Sacrifice!
I saw a poster bantered about the net recently of a soldier with ONE artifical leg back in the desert fighting again...amazing!
With folks like your son, and if we get back to faith in His Son, we can turn this country back around!
Prayers for continued strength, healing, agility and mental strength to do all things by the Will of God!
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Robert,your son is a hero and I am sure you are proud of him.My prayers go to your whole family.
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I pray for him and for a quick and successful recovery.I will also pray for you and your family.
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I'm so glad he's doing well.it's a long uphill road that with his attitude he'll make it;prayers for his continued sucsess.
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Well I wanted to move this back to the top as a friend of mine just lost a son in that terrible place over there so that we can live and work and play and go about our everyday life. I was reminded once again of the great price that is being paid for us to have this site as well as all the other things we take for granted here in the country. Lord we need but to look around to see these people are everywhere. Not just the warriors but the support teams, families we call them, that walk around us every day. I hope that when you read this post today that you will stop long enough to tell that one whom you know that has been there and done that "Thank You" for your service. Even those who never wore a uniform but lost someone who did, have raised someone that did, or married someone that did, or buried someone that did, that you will not forget their sacrifice for what we call FREEDOM. I will and I promise to never forget them as long as I have breath. Again thank your son for his service and thank you for raising a son who was willing to do so.......Dusty
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Amen, Brother...AMEN!
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Thank You, Rookie for lifting this back out of memory.
Robert H, there are no words that are adequate for you or your brave son. You both seem indomitable in the face of challenge although I'm sure there are dark moments for you both.
Please accept the thanks of my family and my country, our country. We hold you up in prayer.
Amen.
Jed
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I haven't checked this thread ina long time, but this evening I read it from start to finish. Brought a flood of memories. I had kinda forgotten what it felt like being there, watching him thru his stages of recovery and struggles. How it felt to see him that way.
Hard to believe that it will be a year Sept 13.
I want to thank everyone again for your kind words and support. It matters very much.
He will be discharged from Walter Reed the end of Sept., the beginning of bow season here and he is ready to get in the woods.
He says this deer season should get him in even better shape. Plans on using trekking poles with his bow/rifle slung on his back while making his way to sits. I don't think its gonnbe a real problem after seeing how far he has come.
I know this is an old thread, but there were so many of you that kept up with us during the majority that I thought you would like to know where he was. Thanks again to all of you!
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This thread means too much to be considered old,I'm extreamley proud of your son for getting through this,good luck this season.Larry
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Awesome news! Good Luck this hunting season to you and your son!! God Bless
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Well I want to say thanks to you for giving us this update. It does not go too many days that I don't think about ya'll and have even to bring this back up and would forget. I too am proud to know you and your family and to have been privileged to pray for you all. Again thanks for the update.......Dusty
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Thanks, Robert for bringing us up to speed.
Wonderful to read how your son has such an indomitable spirit...all things with God!
Thank you to your son for HIS service to us and our Country.
Prayers for continued healing and strength and increased mobility!