The Someone You Should Know radio collaboration began more than three years ago. Bruce McQuain, a 28-year veteran of the Army who served in Vietnam, joins us every Sunday evening at 9pm on WRKO to tell us a new, incredible story of bravery and heroics on the battlefield .
This week were touched by an email we received from Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Jim Deyermond. Jim’s longtime friend Kevin Dupont from Chicopee is a 52-year old Army National Guard soldier who volunteered to go to Afghanistan. Kevin was severely injured in an IED explosion while riding in a humvee. He has suffered expensive burns and he is fighting for life at US Army Burn Center at Brooke Army Hospital in San Antonio, Texas.
Here is an excerpt from Sgt. Deyermond’s email,
I write this letter to ask for your help in getting Kevin’s story and sacrifice out to the people of Massachusetts and to his hundreds of friends throughout New England. Kevin is no spring-chicken. He is 52 years old and after graduating from Chicopee, Massachusetts High School he enlisted in the Marines. After serving two tours in the Marines, Kevin returned home and joined the Massachusetts Army National Guard. While serving with the Mass Guard, Kevin has been assigned to the Counter-Drug Program. During his service with the Guard, Kevin has worked with almost every law enforcement department in the state. He has also been assigned to two FBI (H.I.D.T.A.) offices and to the United States Coast Guard Intelligence Unit in Boston. Kevin has hundreds of friends in law enforcement in Massachusetts as well as the other New England states.
I haven’t heard of one news story about Kevin since he was wounded. I am hoping that you will be able to let people know. Kevin volunteered to be deployed to Afghanistan. He didn’t have to go. He could easily have stayed here in Massachusetts doing his National Guard duties instead of where he is now, lying in a hospital bed unconscious, with feeding and breathing tubes keeping him alive and bandages over most of his body.
Kevin and his family need our support, emotional and financial. There is a website set up where you can read about Kevin and leave a message of thanks, support and encouragement for him and his family. Please pay them a visit here.
Jim and his friends have also set up a tax deductable charitable organization to raise money for the family.
Blue Skin Foundation
256 Doyle Road
Holden, MA 01520
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