Army Specialist Jonathan M. Mickle
August 19, 1985 ~ October 30, 2012
Operation Iraqi Freedom
United States Army
27, of Portsmouth, NH; died as a result of service to our country.
Operation Iraqi Freedom
United States Army
27, of Portsmouth, NH; died as a result of service to our country.
Submitted by his sister, Whitney:
"We lost our mother when we were young. I was 11 and Jonathan was 14. And we also have two other brothers but we were all under 18. It seemed that when we lost our mother we lost a lot of our father too and it was very hard for us and totally changed our lives but what kept us most content was sports. Jonathan excelled in every sport he played. We were always at the baseball field and my father coached his teams all throughout teenage years.
Jonathan and I were always close being the closest to my age. We did every thing together. We didnt have to to anything but being together and we always had fun. I miss him more and more with each passing second.
Military always was the next step for Jonathan, wanting to defend our country. Being a part of the Army was one of Jonathan's greatest accomplishments. He followed my oldest brother footsteps and joined the Army right when he graduated and he was off to basic training at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. I'm grateful for him being away because I now have so many letters from him that I can reread and cherish. After that he was stationed in Germany for a few months before being sent to Iraq.
I believe his experiences here are what made things so hard for him once he returned home. When he returned home I noticed a few things that were weird to me but he just shrugged it off. He didnt sleep in a bed rather he would sleep on the floor. He wasn't the fun loving person he was before seeing action. He would get angry at little things, but I knew he was still in there. It took a while for things to be back to normal for Jonathan (or as normal as things could be).
He recieved many honors including:
Army Commendation Medal
Army Achievement Medal
Army Good Conduct Medal
National Defense Service Medal
Global War on Terrorism Medal
Iraq Compaign Medal
Army Service Ribbin
Overseas Service Ribbon
Jonathan started showing me pictures from his time overseas and he also told me about his buddy who had died by an explosion when they drove over an IED. The heartbreak of him sharing this with me is a feeling I dont think I'll ever have again and one I wont forget.
I was proud of Jonathan he seemed to be getting help he needed he was going to school for Homeland Security and was on track to graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Justice Science.
Without warning or any knowledge about this my brother decided to take his own life on Octocer 30th 2012.
He would have graduated college (first in our family by the way) in May of 2013.
The college contacted me and I took his place and walked on the stage to get his diploma.
I'll never know the exact reason my brother decided to end his life that day but I'll never stop honoring him."
"We lost our mother when we were young. I was 11 and Jonathan was 14. And we also have two other brothers but we were all under 18. It seemed that when we lost our mother we lost a lot of our father too and it was very hard for us and totally changed our lives but what kept us most content was sports. Jonathan excelled in every sport he played. We were always at the baseball field and my father coached his teams all throughout teenage years.
Jonathan and I were always close being the closest to my age. We did every thing together. We didnt have to to anything but being together and we always had fun. I miss him more and more with each passing second.
Military always was the next step for Jonathan, wanting to defend our country. Being a part of the Army was one of Jonathan's greatest accomplishments. He followed my oldest brother footsteps and joined the Army right when he graduated and he was off to basic training at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. I'm grateful for him being away because I now have so many letters from him that I can reread and cherish. After that he was stationed in Germany for a few months before being sent to Iraq.
I believe his experiences here are what made things so hard for him once he returned home. When he returned home I noticed a few things that were weird to me but he just shrugged it off. He didnt sleep in a bed rather he would sleep on the floor. He wasn't the fun loving person he was before seeing action. He would get angry at little things, but I knew he was still in there. It took a while for things to be back to normal for Jonathan (or as normal as things could be).
He recieved many honors including:
Army Commendation Medal
Army Achievement Medal
Army Good Conduct Medal
National Defense Service Medal
Global War on Terrorism Medal
Iraq Compaign Medal
Army Service Ribbin
Overseas Service Ribbon
Jonathan started showing me pictures from his time overseas and he also told me about his buddy who had died by an explosion when they drove over an IED. The heartbreak of him sharing this with me is a feeling I dont think I'll ever have again and one I wont forget.
I was proud of Jonathan he seemed to be getting help he needed he was going to school for Homeland Security and was on track to graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Justice Science.
Without warning or any knowledge about this my brother decided to take his own life on Octocer 30th 2012.
He would have graduated college (first in our family by the way) in May of 2013.
The college contacted me and I took his place and walked on the stage to get his diploma.
I'll never know the exact reason my brother decided to end his life that day but I'll never stop honoring him."
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