You just can’t help it remembering Jake, he was just so comical. I didn’t think I’d ever laugh or smile again and, in fact, the first time I laughed again was remembering something he said. His mother Lesley: "Jake was the last soldier to be killed before Remembrance Sunday. The word hero is used far, far too easily but these boys who put their lives on the line for us, to keep us safe, they are the real heroes.” MORE “When you meet the other families you look at each other and think, our sons are the true heroes. We were all worried but we gave him our blessing. “Was I worried? I didn't let him know it because that's the worst thing you can do. He loved his family - his sisters Jacqueline and Dawn, his grandparents and his uncle Ken - and he adored his girlfriend, Charlene, but when he came home he wanted to be with his friends too, he loved his Regiment.” “One thing I will always remember is that when he was home on his last R&R, he came up to me and said: ‘Dad, I’m not a soldier, I’m a Para’. But it had to be the Parachute Regiment - he only wanted to be a Paratrooper. Later, he was taken on a day course to live the Army life. Almost from the moment he could walk he wanted to be a cricket player. “He was always an outdoor boy, that's what he wanted - he couldn’t work in an office. I spoke to him for about 20 minutes, he asked about the family, I said the family were OK and I said, ‘It's OK son’ and I said, ‘remember your Dad is always beside you’.” He phoned about 12 o'clock at night, he said he was excited about the patrol. “I was the last person in the family to speak to him. His father John, himself an ex-soldier: “He just wanted to be in the field, he kept saying ‘I just want to be out on patrol’.
Kyle had the most amazing smile, even his eyes smiled." His mother Moira: “Although Kyle was killed at the tender age of 21, he felt that earning his maroon beret and becoming a Para was an amazing personal triumph.
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