Lance Cpl. Andrew Carpenter Taken Off Life Support After Being Shot

Killed Marine's Dad Says Son Was Apprehensive
Andrew Carpenter Taken Off Life Support After Being Shot
Reported By Deanna Lambert
In August, Marine Lance Cpl. Andrew Carpenter wrote his parents a letter thanking them for being great parents and for giving him all they did. Now, his parents think it might have been his goodbye letter.

"(I) wanted to send a thank you for not just for the packages I receive but also for everything you have done for me," Cindy Carpenter read from her son's letter.
Andrew Carpenter was taken off life support Saturday after he was recently shot in the neck on patrol in the Helmand province, according to the Department of Defense.
On Valentine's Day, Cindy and Kevin Carpenter got the phone call they never hoped to get.
"He said that my son had been seriously wounded in Afghanistan, and he started to read an incident report, and I said, 'Well, is he alive or is he dead?'" said Kevin.
Andrew was brain dead.
"We wanted to hold him, touch him. That's the one thing Crissie (Andrew's wife) didn't get to do," Cindy said.
"Cry on him," said Kevin.
During their last phone conversation with their son in January, Andrew told his father that he was scared, his dad said. Carpenter said that the U.S. military doesn't have the proper resources to be over there fighting.
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Andrew Carpenter Taken Off Life Support After Being Shot