The family of Army Captain John Hallett, III visited his memorial on the campus of his alma mater, De La Salle High School this week as the Bay Area comes together to celebrate the military with San Francisco Fleet Week.
CONCORD - The family of Army Captain John Hallett, III visited his memorial on the campus of his alma mater, De La Salle High School this week to share his story as the Bay Area comes together to celebrate the military with San Francisco Fleet Week.
Wendy Hallett and John Hallett Jr. visit a memorial for their son John Hallett III at De La Salle High School in Concord. Hallett III was killed during a deployment to Afghanistan in 2009.Hallett got married in 2003 and served in Iraq. As he and his wife Lisa started a family, they had two boys, and a third child on the way when he deployed to Afghanistan in 2009. He was killed two weeks later and never met his daughter.
The couple has become active members of TAPS, helping other families after they reach out to the nonprofit. The organization helps military families regardless of how their service member passed away. In recent years, they're hearing from loved ones with a service member who died by suicide or because of injuries from their time in the military or an illness related to it.
Hallett has become a mentor to his father as a man who packed so much life into his 30 years on earth.
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