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| Tom Kennedy and family |
Some sad news came out West Point yesterday. Former Black Knight hockey player Tom Kennedy died in Afghanistan on Wednesday from a suicide bomb attack.
I really won't go into the whole thing since USCHO has covered it all pretty well.
But, what I can do is tell you all how you can help in this sad situation.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with my connection to Army Hockey. My family had season tickets to Tate Rink at West Point from the mid-1990's to the mid-2000's. Growing up, I rarely missed a home game. It's where I learned to love hockey, and college hockey especially. I got to know a few players and their families during my time there.
This past Fall, Anthony "Tony" Felice, a former captain of the Army Hockey team in the late 1990's contacted me after reading this post from when I ran the Union Hockey Blog. Since then we've had several email exchanges about Army Hockey and other topics, and we were lucky enough to meet up and talk for a few minutes in Tampa during the Frozen Four this past April.
When I heard the news about Kennedy, the first person I thought of was Tony. I sent him an email this morning sending my condolences to him and the entire Army Hockey family, and asked him if there's anything I could do to help.
Here's an email from Tony explaining how we can all help:
All,
This week one of my very close friends, Major Tommy Kennedy, was killed in Afghanistan. I played hockey with Tommy at West Point for 2 years. He was in a convoy and apparently two suicide bombers attacked the convoy, killing a total of 3 people. Tommy was Class of 2000 and had served for 12 years. Tommy had already served two prior tours in Iraq and he was just recently deployed to Afghanistan for his 3rd tour. The hardest part of the story is that Tommy leaves behind a wife and twin 2-year-olds (they turn 2 in a week or so). Unfortunately, they will never have an opportunity to know how amazing their father was. Tommy's family and close friends are in the process of setting up a trust for the benefit of Tommy’s kids. In the meantime, a link has been set up for people that want to give money to help out the family. If any of you would like to contribute, the link is below, if not please forward to people that you think would like to help. And those knowledge with Facebook or Twitter please get the link below out, he was a great Army Officer, teammate and man and will be sorely missed. Thanks
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Any support is needed at this time. I hope the college hockey community can come together and support the Kennedy's in their time of need.
Thank you for reading this post, and have a good weekend.
