Two soldiers wrote for the fallen, one fell to PTSD

One soldier's song for the fallen
Stars and Stripes
By Meredith Tibbetts
Published: September 4, 2014

'Music is the only way I can talk about what I've been through'
Between missions and under the hot desert sun in Iraq in 2005, Staff Sgt. Nathan Fair and Cpl. Anthony Peterson started writing a song about their fellow servicemembers who were killed in action. Both writers of "Fallen Soldier" made it home, but Peterson lost his battle with PTSD last year.

Between missions and under the hot desert sun in Iraq in 2005, Staff Sgt. Nathan Fair and Cpl. Anthony Peterson started writing a song about their fellow servicemembers who were killed in action.

The song “Fallen Soldier” gained momentum on YouTube recently, with more than 193,000 views. Both writers made it home, but Peterson lost his battle with post-traumatic stress disorder on Jan. 10, 2013.

"This is for the ones who ain’t coming back. Fought for the country in Iraq,” Fair sings.

In the video, Fair stops by the grave of Sgt. Maj. Tyson Nick, who while working as a contractor was killed in action in Afghanistan on Dec. 5, 2012, while trying to save a downed soldier.

“I was in Afghanistan with the 82nd [Airborne] and it just hits up pretty much everybody that I have ever lost or served next to me. It’s not about anyone in particular, although there is one person that I do think of once and a while,” Fair said.
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Fallen Soldier Nathan Fair