Family remembers Iraq War Veteran killed in Floyd Co. crash
WKYT News
By: Hillary Thornton
September 30, 2013
PRESTONSBURG, Ky. (WYMT) - Battling a war of emotions, a Floyd County family mourns the loss of their loved one. Iraq War Veteran, 29-year-old Brenan McKinney, died this weekend following a crash. McKinney's mother says her son will now live on through his daughter.
A proud army mom, Pamela Couch, lights up when she looks at pictures of her son.
"When he told me he wanted to go into the Army, I tried every way in the world to talk him out of it but he just kept saying, 'I could get killed on the road or how drugs are here I could get shot in a drive by.' When he talked me into letting him go...I worried the whole time he was gone," says Couch.
Couch worried because she knew the dangers he would face....the images and scars he would return with.
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