Injured Savannah Soldier Speaks Out

Injured Savannah Soldier Speaks Out

By Andrew Davis
Anchor/Reporter
Published: August 14, 2009

Specialist Christopher “Kit” Lowe says his time in Afghanistan was difficult sometimes but he had help. That help in the form of his fellow soldiers. One of those, Captain Matthew Freeman.

“I considered him a friend,“ said Lowe via phone from Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington. “He was a good guy. One of those people who you could be having a crappy day and walk by him. He’d say something, make you laugh and smile, and you’d say ok, I can have a better day now.“

Freeman was killed during a firefight in Afghanistan back on August 7th. The same firefight which has many military personnel calling Lowe a hero.

“The doc was there, the doc was trying to pull the captain back, recover the body,“ explained SMSgt Rex Temple of the US Embedded Training Team in Afghanistan during an interview with WUSF Radio in Tampa, Florida. “He hollered for help. SPC Lowe scrambled up the ladder, he surveyed what was going on with the bullets and stuff, he grabbed the doc and threw him down. At the same time he was hit in the leg and both fell off the roof.“

Lowe doesn’t feel he did anything extraordinary.
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Injured Savannah Soldier Speaks Out