Matthew Colin's father said son never wavered in his duty in Afghanistan

Family celebrates an 'American soldier': Matthew Colin's father said son never wavered in his duty in Afghanistan (SLIDESHOW)
November 19, 2011 9:47 PM
Lauren Sage Reinlie
Daily News
NAVARRE — The first premonition Ken Colin had of the grief he would soon face was when his four dogs began howling at the window of his home Wednesday night.

He said when he looked out he saw an Army sergeant and a chaplain standing near the doorway.

“I knew exactly what they were here for,” he said. “Our lives just came crashing down on us.”

The men had come to tell him and his wife, Kathy, that their 22-year-old son, Army Pfc. Matthew Colin, had been killed by a roadside bomb while patrolling in Kandahar province in Afghanistan earlier last week.

Matthew Colin had enlisted in the Army just a year and a half before his death.

“Matt loved being in the military,” Ken Colin said at his home in Navarre on Saturday afternoon.

“God placed certain people on this earth to be soldiers, to be warriors, and my son just happened to be one of them.”

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