Edward Wilton III, 22, went to school in the Jacksonville area, and on Thursday his loved ones will lay him to rest in Mandarin.
He went to school in the Jacksonville area and on Thursday his loved ones will lay him to rest in Mandarin.“My son Edward was an adventurer. He was a military man, good person. Honest person,” said father Edward Wilton II.“He has been military-minded since the beginning since he was born,” he said.
“He wanted to go defend his heritage...his ancestors and his, and he put it like this, ‘These are my ancestors. It’s the land of my ancestors,’” Edward Wilton II said. “Several members of the family did very much try to talk him out of it and would get angry with him. But I saw it as his passion and his dream. And I think he was happy.”RELATED:
“He loved the Jaguars. I talked with some of his buddies in the field. And, you know, they were giving me some of the details of how he died,” Wilton said. “It was a night operation. So they were talking to him and he was joking with them. And he started making fun of one of his, I think, the squad leader for his football choices. And the squad leader said, ‘Well, what about you? You’re a Jags fan.’ And his comeback was ‘The Jacksonville Jaguars are going to win the Super Bowl.
“Absolutely a hero to Ukraine,” Edward Wilton II said. “And that’s how he’s referred to in conversation with Ukrainians is hero of Ukraine.”
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