4/5/2006 4:29:00 PM EDITORIAL/Remembering
a fallen hero: Christopher Lee Robinson, 1970-2006
The LORD reigns, he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed in majesty and is armed with strength. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
Your throne was established long ago; you are from all eternity.
The seas have lifted up, O LORD, the seas have lifted up their voice; the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.
Mightier than the thunder of the great waters, mightier than the breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is mighty.
Your statutes stand firm; holiness adorns your house for endless days, O LORD.
Those are the words of the 93rd Psalm that Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Lee Robinson asked to be read at his funeral should his service to our country demand the ultimate sacrifice.
The passage affirms the Lord’s sovereignty, His majesty and His control over all events, including death and war. Whatever turmoil there may be on this earth, the Lord reigns eternal, the psalmist says, and what comforting words from a man who gave his life serving his country in the turmoil of war.
Robinson, 36, who spent his early years in Madison County, died March 25 in a firefight while serving with the 2nd Battalion of the 20th Special Forces Group in Afghanistan.
From a very early age when Sgt. Robinson earned his Eagle Scout he made service, honor and sacrifice his life calling. He enlisted in the Army in 1987 at age 17 and quickly completed training for the Special Forces.
Robinson was remembered Saturday for his courage and dedication to the job and his country. He was also remembered for his love of adventure, his great storytelling ability, his smile, and his Hawaiian shirts.
When he wasn’t repairing communications systems and jumping out of planes at 10,000 feet, Robinson found the time to be a skilled practical joker.
“Somehow, with Divine Providence, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we put him to rest today, on April 1st, (April Fool’s Day)” said Chaplain Cregg Puckett of the 2nd Battalion, a close friend of Robinson, as mourners, gathered in the First Baptist Church of Madison, laughed.
As a communications specialist, he was a member of the 2nd Battalion of the 20th Special Forces Group for his entire military career, deploying all over the world, from Panama and Bolivia to Haiti and Kosovo and, finally, Afghanistan.
Robinson served his country at home as well as abroad: he became a member of the Mississippi National Guard Counter Drug Task Force in 1992, and an intelligence analyst for the Gulf Coast High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) office. He was training Afghan army soldiers at the time he was killed.
At one point during his tour of duty in Panama, Robinson was able to convince his commanding officer that a pack of monkeys had stolen his rucksack, when in fact a few mischievous soldiers had hidden it.
In small towns across the nation, people have turned out by the hundreds to pay tribute to fallen soldiers, but we’re a little too spread out and disjointed, although many did and more were there in spirit.
So, on behalf of our entire community, — from Camden to Ridgeland and all parts in between — we express our most sincere and deepest sympathies to the Robinson family. Thank you for his service to our country. (Robinson had told his father he was prepared to die for his country and not to shed any tears.)
At the memorial service in Madison, Major Gen. Harold A. Cross, Adjutant General of the Mississippi National Guard, said of Robinson: “He was a sergeant first-class, a soldier first-class, a hero first-class…he died with the dignity of a patriot.”
Indeed, Robinson is a patriot, he is our hero.
Reader Comments
Posted: Saturday, April 05, 2008
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chris
hello is there any possible way of telling me if izear robinson is was the father of christopher robinson.im curious because my nme is christopher lee robinson my father was from his hometown and i was told he had another kid named exactly the same 6 years on the same date...ty for ur time.
