The last thing he told his father was that he didn’t think he was coming back. A calm voice, a quiet goodbye, a son preparing for what he somehow knew was coming. One day later, the knock on the door shattered everything. A porch full of uniforms. A mother screaming, “You got to be kidd…” Continues… He was 28, the only son of parents who had watched him choose a dangerous calling and love it with his whole heart. Tech Sgt. Tyler Simmons died doing the job he believed he was meant to do, aboard a KC-135 refueling aircraft that... Continues…





