In his last e-mail to his teenage daughter, Army Staff Sgt. Donald "Bernard" Farmer promised to send money for Christmas. "I told him we loved him and can't wait for him to come home," said his daughter, Charon, 16. "That was the last contact I had with him." Farmer, 33, of Zion, Ill., was killed along with another soldier Dec. 19 in Shuaybah, Kuwait, when he was struck by a vehicle while changing a flat tire. He was based at Fort Hood. Farmer was a high school football and track standout who joined the Marines after attending college for two years in North Dakota. He joined the Army in 1995 _ the same year he married his childhood sweetheart, Shonda, whom he met in elementary school. "He was my buddy," she said. "He was just an easygoing person. He was very funny. He loved his children." He also leaves a son, Da'Shaun, 8, and a stepdaughter, Darion Nash, 12. Farmer had served in Iraq last year but assured his mother he would be safer in Kuwait. "He said, `Mom, what's going to happen is going to happen,'" Gwendolyn Farmer said. "He died doing what he likes to do."
In his last e-mail to his teenage daughter, Army Staff Sgt. Donald "Bernard" Farmer promised to send money for Christmas. "I told him we loved him and can't wait for him to come home," said his daughter, Charon, 16. "That was the last contact I had with him." Farmer, 33, of Zion, Ill., was killed along with another soldier Dec. 19 in Shuaybah, Kuwait, when he was struck by a vehicle while changing a flat tire. He was based at Fort Hood. Farmer was a high school football and track standout who joined the Marines after attending college for two years in North Dakota. He joined the Army in 1995 _ the same year he married his childhood sweetheart, Shonda, whom he met in elementary school. "He was my buddy," she said. "He was just an easygoing person. He was very funny. He loved his children." He also leaves a son, Da'Shaun, 8, and a stepdaughter, Darion Nash, 12. Farmer had served in Iraq last year but assured his mother he would be safer in Kuwait. "He said, `Mom, what's going to happen is going to happen,'" Gwendolyn Farmer said. "He died doing what he likes to do."
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