Jeffrey P. Shaffer Obituary

9 years ago today we lay you to rest next to grammie such a sad day for all of us. I miss you with every beat of my heart. I thank God for the 21 years we had together. You are a blessing to us even though your gone. We will see you again one day baby, save me a place by you. Love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck

I am Archie Sharp, Founder and President of Iron Soldiers. To the family, I and so sorry for your loss. I am extremely greatful for my freedom. Thank you Jeffrey and may you be at peace with the angels. To the family, I met you at the H/D in Waco last year. I would love to be able to show your son honor and respect at a banquet on Nov. 14th here in Childress, tx. please let me know if you can attend.

sincerely
Archie Sharp
[email protected]

Tomorrow, 8-15-15, is the Watermelon Run/Walk for the Fallen, in Hempstead, Tx. I will be walking in memory of Jeffrey Shaffer. I just wanted you to know that Jeffrey will never be forgotten. Most sincerely, Kay Kloecker, Hempstead, Tx.

It's Fathers Day I so wish you were here to enjoy it with your lil girl and Dad he misses you something awful. I miss you from the minute I wake until the minute I go to sleep. Oh Jeffrey why?

How am I suppose to live without you?????? It's not getting easier it's just not. Love you miss you more

I had a bad day yesterday just wanted to cry all day long been like that for a few days. I haven't slept good its been so long since I heard your voice listen to you laugh, felt a warm bear hug, or had the chance to say how very proud I am of you and how very much I love you. I hate missing you and find my day dreams wondering what you would be doing now where would you be and what might have become of your life by now. You are so loved and so very missed every single min of every single day. I still just wait for you to walk in the door and ask for chicken and dumplings. Gotta go but I will see you real soon baby boy.
mama
I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.
Your one and only Mama

hi mrs. lisa, i have been trying to find away to contact you. do you have a facebook page? i have a interesting story for you and felt like it being almost veterans day. i could share it with you. your family has been in my prayers.

You are never out of mind though you are out of site. My heart longs for your voice every single day. Loving you always a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Your one and only mama

Love you baby boy miss you more than anything I really wish you were here to talk to maybe go watch a horror movie with I would be happy to just sit and watch you sleep once more mama will never stop loving you I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck

Total melt down today son. I'm sorry I was trying to be strong but it's hard really hard. Mama

Ray and Rebecca came to stay with us a few days. Ray wanted to see where you were lay to rest and your home town where you grew up. He wanted to try to make up for you not being here for Addrin because Addrin feels like he has no brother. They had a great time I think a bind was formed and you would be so proud. You are missed not just today but every day, not just in this moment but every moment. Love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

Subbing at your high school met a teacher who remembered you fondly. Know you are missed and appreciated

If I should die
and my name is remembered
by loved ones
then I was blessed...

If I should die
and my name is remembered
by friends
then I was worthy...

If I should die
and my name is remembered
by strangers
Then I am loved
and I am worthy
and I shall never die

My heart breaks for your family Jeffrey. I did not meet you in this life, but your Mama speaks of you with so much love that I know someday I will meet you and we will be friends...I am so very sorry for your Mom and Dad and all your loving family and friends...thank you for being brave and good and true, and defending the country we all love so much...God bless you and I know angels will hold you forever....rest in peace

Today we lay you to rest 7 years ago. The pain is still there never going away. I miss you so much but see so many signs around me that you are ok. My love for you will not end not even in my death. Love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around your neck. Mama

Lisa I can not say what it feel like to lose a son.But I do know you are not alone.Love and life is all around you enjoy it.

Thinking of you everyday, you are missed by so many!

We won't forget!

2 funerals in one week for family. I just miss you so much and its so hard to see all the kids that are the age you would be. Makes me miss all the what would have been's. Love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama.

Missing you so much. Hope you liked your wreath for your birthday. See you soon. Love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

So much has gone on the last year. But we got the memorial up in the square, you would be so proud. We both miss you so much. You are never forgotten. We love you my darlin. Grauntie & Pawncle

With every beat of my heart I miss you more. Love never ends, never fades, never stops. That why I hurt so much. Love ya a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.

In my heart and my thoughts every min of every day

Oh Jeffrey,
This has been a bad year for me some times it seems as if it's the first year all over again. Dads been really sad and grieving for you, something he hasn't aloud himself to do so far. Addrin is growing and you are missing so much with him. Makayla is a beauty and so much like you it is a comfort but also a painful reminder of what you won't share with her. Stephen has truly needed his big brother this past year and I worry about him daily. Jeffrey I need my lil man, my baby, my friend who always encouraged me with a simple smile. Oh Jeffrey you are so very loved so missed. I can't wait to see you again my heart cries daily for you. Love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

Never Forgotten!

Dear Baby Boy,
It's been to long, to long since you have been home, to long since I heard your voice, felt a hug, heard your laughter, seen your smiling face. You are missed every single min of every day. I ache deep within my soul to just talk to you. I wish you were here with everything I am. Love ya a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.
Mama

You were remembered on Veterans Day by the American Legion in Waco. We put up a display with pictures and some of your things from Iraq. Young and old say a face to put with the name, you are remembered and Honored. Dad, Stephen, Addrin, Bubbie and I miss you every day every minute every second. Love ya my sweetie

Miss you more than ever.Love you lots.

Miss you baby boy.

Love you Iil man

Jeffy, I miss your smile, your hugs, your humor. I miss your beautiful eyes and dark hair. I miss your witt and your laughter and the love you gave us all. I miss our heart to heart talks and the constant questions you always had. Jeffrey my son I MISS YOU.
Love Mama
I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck baby boy.

Hey Darlin, I didn't forget but will be putting it in my ledger from now on. All my personal thoughts and memories' I love you and will never forget. LOVE. Gruntie and Pauncle

September 13, 2011
To the family and friends of Spc. Jeffrey P. Shaffer:
Please accept my remembrance of Jeffrey on the anniversary of his passing and know that he will never be forgotten.

JEFFREY HAS BEEN GONE FROM THIS WORLD FOR 5 YEARS NOW. WE MISS HIM EVERY MINUTE OF EVERYDAY. HE WOULD BE PROUD AND HONORED TO KNOW SO MANY OF HIS FRIENDS STAY IN TOUCH WITH US. HE WOULD BE PROUD OF THE POSITIVE THINGS IN HIS MEMORY THAT WE ARE DOING. I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU WERE TAKEN BUT FOR EVERYTHING GOD HAS A REASON AND IN THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE FAITH. I LOVE YOU SON, I MISS YOU SON. MOM.
I LOVE YOU A BUSHEL AND A PECK AND A HUG AROUND THE NECK. MAMA

To the family of Jeffrey Shaffer:
I read again the guest book for my son, Lt. Scott Love and noted your entry and that this is the anniversary of Jeffrey's death. Jeffrey Shaffer's name was said in my house today. My thoughts are with you. My son, Marine Sgt. Daniel Love will be heading to Afghanistan in Jan. Hope you and yours are well.
Gold Star Mom

Dear Jeffrey,
so your 26th birthday has come and gone you would be proud of your lil brother Addrin as he was an honorary page at the capital in honor of you. He recieved a Texas flag in honor of your birthday. That's right a Texas flag I know this would tickle you because you were so proud to be a Texan. I miss you my sweet baby boy I miss you more than words can say. The last few days we have been having to turn out the light in the curio cabinet that holds your picture and none of us here have turned it on, we just turn it off. Bubby said it may be you saying hi to us. I love you still with all my heart even though yours is still. I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama
happy birthday baby of mine

Dear Jeffy,
wow it's close to your birthday and the days are really begining to get to me. I don't want another year to have come and gone without you in it. I miss you so very much and my heart aches for you day and night. I'm sick of hearing "time heals all wounds" that's a lie nothing is healing the wound that is so deep inside of me. I miss you I love you I will never get over the loss of you. I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

Baby,
Well it's a new year already and it's just hard to believe that another year has come an gone. Your brother is well and had some possible good news he may be home a month early that is rumor of course but we can hope. We miss you and have managed to make it through another Christmas. I love you still as much as when I first saw you my brown eyed dream. I miss you as much as when I saw you off to Germany. You are half of my heart and that part will never return to me but some day it will be whole again when we meet up in Heaven. I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

Baby Boy,
I miss u more and more every day I thought it would get easier but in ways it only gets harder to face each day without u here. I love u more than words can say and more than actions can show. I worry about your brother every day and pray God allows u to watch over him. I've had several of your friends say really great things about you and that makes me so proud but it doesn't take away the pain. I love you my son. Love ya a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

Dear Jeffrey and Lisa,It is so hard to find words to express the overwhelming sadness I feel and I know my Raymond still can't find those words either,I still see such sadness in his eyes,so much pain still there and all I can do is pray for him and all your army brothers,I know they have your memory deep in their hearts and souls.I know you must have been such a wonderful person to know because no one can forget you,I know you are up there keeping an eye out for all of your army brothers and I know they can feel that.I pray for your family and for all of us who have loved ones who have served or who are serving in the armed forces,we might not be there in body but our thoughts our memories our souls are with all of you, life can never be the same again for any of us,you have touched so many lives with your much to brief stay in this world and I am so glad that I have faith in my life and that I know all of us have an invisible bond that can never be broken and when your family sheds tears of grief and sorrow we all shed them with them and we all hope that your memory will comfort them in some small way.God Bless all of you for serving your country and God Bless all of your families for there love and support and their heartfelt prayers.Lydia,Raymond's mom

Jeffrey, I think about you each day when I see the Stars and Stripes, when the daily national news comes on, and most especially, when I get to see Addrin on Tuesdays and Thursdays at school. He is growing up into such a fine young person. Thanks for giving your all. You were also such a great person to serve and protect all who love liberty.

I miss you friend.

Miss you

Oh Jeffrey my baby boy I miss you so very much. The weirdest thing happened yesterday, you lil brother got a postcard from an Army Base in Kuwait and I couldn't make out the name. It really bothered me Dad started reading it all the sudden I ask him does it say tell Mom and Dad I love them, he said no and I called myself stupid out loud. Dad ask what was wrong as by then I was crying I couldn't answer and he said tell me, I said it's stupid but I thought it might be from you he said he thought the same thing. We were both crying by then. I get so mad at myself when I wish and hope for you to come home and I realize it's not going to happen. I just haven't gotten to the point that I can accept you being gone forever because forever is a long time, to long. I just want to wake up and have you come in and ask for chicken an dumplins or ask my to iron your jeans. I miss those times and just wish I could get the chance to do all that for you again. I've been intouch with several of you army brothers and just got through sending boxes to your other lil brother in Afghanistan and some of your buddies. I love you forever. Mom. I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

Jeffrey,
Im at your high school today subbing for a science teacher. The kids are kids each with a personality of their own, those who are loud, the shy ones, the funny ones who make you smile. I wish I would have seen you here to know what you did in class, or maybe not. There is a book out about your unit and what you guys went through in Iraq, and I plan to get some copies as soon as I can but I'll have to order them because Waco is sold out. My heart hurts still so deep for you and your brother being in Afghanistan doesn't help my stress. I am so proud of you both I just wish you could have been there to see him
graduate and give him advice when he deployed. I love you and that nor my tears will ever stop. I talk about you every chance I get at schools and other events so you won't be forgotten by anyone. I miss you Jeffy more than anyone will ever know. Mom
I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

Jeffrey,
It has been a live changing 4 years, nothing is the same and I know it never will be. We went to the cemetery on Monday the 13th and after that I was done for. Gabe called to see if we had gone out there and we talked for a long while it was great to hear from him. Then Dickerson texted and we did that for a while they are such great men to always check on us. They to have suffered in more ways than we have and I just wish I could take their pain from them. Bakaian called a few days later he said he didn't want to bother me on the 13th he didn't want to remind me what the day was. I informed him I know when its the 13th of any month no one has to remind me and I don't have to see a calendar. I emailed Col. Deane the other day he is retiring in a few months and Harris is headed to Afghanistan. Moreno is in Afghanistan and doing good. I think of so many of the guys we met in Germany and wish we could have met them all but I know some were gone and others in hospitals. Its funny we talk about Davis and he left a message on here the other day. I always remember how upset you were when he got injured and the nice things you said about him. I remember the hurt in your voice when you worried if he would be able to do all the same things with his children. We all love you and miss you so very much. Tomorrow will be such a hard day that is the day we lay you to rest and the last time I saw your face. I miss your laugh and you smile so much it can't stand it. I find myself saying your name out loud so much more because the pain is to much to keep it inside. I love you and the pain is still to real. Mom
I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

I had a hard day yesterday as my heart was with you the entire day. I couldn't bear to think about it. We miss you lots. Brent and Pawncle have finally after 4 years taken the jet ski out and they thought of you. I heard from Josh and he looks good. I love you my sweet boy and miss you forever. Hope your little brother stays safe, I will pray for him. Forever in our hearts, Grauntie

To the family and friends of Spc. Jeffrey P. Shaffer:
Remembering Jeffrey on the anniversary of his passing. May our fallen heroes never be forgotten!
Peggy Childers
"Don't Let The Memory Of Them Drift Away"
www.IraqWarHeroes.org

This is SSG Davis (r). I served with Jeff in Ramadi in B Co. I still remember all those times you would make me laugh at just about anything. You were a wonderful soldier and one of the best guys I ever had the privilege of knowing. God bless you and your family.

I want you to know that you were remembered in our church yesterday. One of our members talked about meeting your mother as she was sending your brother to Afghanistan. This young lady's husband was on the same plane with your brother back to Afghanistan. My thoughts and prayers are going with both of them and are being sent to your mother, too. May God hold your mom and your family in His arms! Thank you for your ultimate sacrifice for all of us!

Dear Jeffrey,
Ok you be watching out for your lil brother as we sent him back to Afghanistan yesterday and it was so hard to send another of my son's to War. I know it is your lives and choices but it is hard on an old Mothers heart and knees with all the extra prayers, I am not as young as I use to be. I miss you every min. of every day and some times I just say it out loud " I miss you and love you so much Jeffy" and everyone knows that I am having an unbearable moment and the words have to come out so I don't explode inside. The tears still flow daily and now I cry for your brother or as you call him "lil sister" he still laughs about that. We all miss you and when he came home on leave he sure could have used his big brother to talk to about what he is going through. I love you my sweet baby boy and can't wait til we see each other again. Mama
I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

hey jeff, it's danny first from the war. i think of you everyday bro. i miss you and you will never be forgotten, have the party ready for the rest of the boys in heaven. i love you and your family.
spc. danny first

My Dearest Baby Boy,
Well memorial day is here and so many people are thinking of you as I do everyday. They remembered you in a service at church yesterday. Also 3 of your brothers came by saturday for the day and they are coming back today to go to the cemetary where you were laid to rest. You would be so proud of them for checking on your old mama and dad. Gabe, Jason, and Andrew are the ones who came to see us. Of course Bakaian and Moreno always call and check on us. It has been the toughest 3 years 8 months and 18 days of my life. Now I go through the waiting game once more as your lil brother Stephen is now in Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne, and where he is it is like Ramadi when you were there. So the worring begins all over. I miss you so much and wish you were here to give him advice or just be with him. I know if God allows he will let you watch out for him there, be an angel on his shoulder for me please. Boy thats tough I still ask you to do things for me, I bet you wonder if that will ever stop. No...
Addrin and Dad and Stephen miss you so much and I am still waiting for that total peace from God, but I still have so many unanswered questions so I don't know if that peace will ever be mine. I love you and I am so honored to be your Mother. Love Mama
I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

I did not know SPC. Jeffrey Schaffer but I wear his name and the day he passed on my wrist everyday. I will never forget and thank you! Rest In Peace!

The memories have flooded my thoughts of you today. I have laughed and cried thinking of some of the things you did to make us laugh. Remembering when the dog bite you on the butt for giving Pawncle a hard time. You will always be special to us and forever remain in our hearts. Thank-you Paul and Lisa for giving him to us if even for a short time. Your in great hands now. And forever a part of us. We love you. YOUR Grauntie and Pawncle

Today Jeffrey should have been 25 years old and with the knowledge of that an overwhelming since of sadness is bestowed on me. Unlike my other boys birthdays we can’t celebrate Jeffrey’s we can only celebrate the life that use to be as his life here on earth is no more. It has been a rough past few days as I have tried to prepare myself for the let down, heartache, and tears that come with today. That’s ironic to say prepare myself as if I am fixing a meal and getting all my prep work out of the way, no matter how hard I try there is never enough time to prepare myself for the days that will be filled with so much pain. I am never prepared for the days that forever haunt me with pain. I hate being so tense and stressed as I wait for the pain to come that I snap at everyone whom I love the most. I take there head every time I open my mouth, and no matter how I try not to be that way it still happens. My poor family, oh how they must love me to put up with me. I called to tell Miss Ashley happy birthday and fought back tears the whole time, I always think back to how much Jeffrey loved that little girl. I think on this day and every day of his daughter, who will never know him, she will be 6 next month and it eases some pain to know that a little piece of him goes on. Jeffrey will never know grey hair, wrinkles, nor the aches and pains of old age, but in the same thought he will never see his daughter grow up, graduate, get married, and he will never know the happiness of grandchildren as I have been blessed with. That thought saddens me to the core. I also know that he will never shed the tears or feel the pain in his heart like I do every day, for that I am grateful. I miss Jeffrey every day and just when I think things are bearable, I have days like today that reminds me I will never see him, nor hug him as my son again. Forever there is an empty hole in my heart. I remember the day Jeffrey was borne down to every little detail, and I remember the feeling of completion when that perfect little creature was placed in my arms, I couldn’t take my eyes off him. From that night on until he could talk and say his prayers himself I said a prayer for him. I then thanked God every day for him. Even though I have pain every day I still thank God for the time I was given with him, even though it was all to short. Dear Jeffrey Happy Birthday baby boy, I love you and miss you so very much.
Love Mom
I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

I Love and Miss You SO Much! My Hero, My Soldier, and MY COUSIN!

Well today come and gone but not without phone calls from your buddies, emails from friends and family all remembering you and the sacrifice you made. One of your friends called and thanked me for your sacrifice because of it he is still free he said, but you know what he too served and in our eyes he too is a Hero wether he thinks so or not. Thanks Gabe. Addrin didn't get to be baptized today after all because he was running a fever. Your brother went to the cemetary along with your friend Lyon, they both needed that because it's been a long hard road for them as well. I miss you and today as well as all days I think of you and the many others who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. I will always miss you, always love you and always be so grateful that God Blessed me with you even if it wasn't for very long. I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Love you baby boy. Mama

To my Jeffrey, I am with you in heart today. You are not forgotten by any of us. We loved you with all our hearts and will forever remain there.You will always share our lives both past and present. I write to you often in my personal book of memories and thoughts.I read your letters over and over, and laugh and cry. I was,am,and will always be so proud of you and never forget your sacrifice.Paul your Dad and your Mother are very proud of you also. So Pawncle and I send our love with tons of kisses until we see you again. With all my love, your Grauntie

To the family of Spc. Jeffrey P. Shaffer:
Jeffrey gave the ultimate sacrifice and will be held in the hearts of Americans forever. I cannot and will not let our fallen heroes be forgotten. My deepest sympathy to you. "Some gave all."
Peggy Childers
"Don't Let The Memory Of Them Drift Away"
www.IraqWarHeroes.org

To Lisa,

I am thinking of you on this day and I hope that you have found peace in your heart. I miss our meetings and talks back in Ft. Hood and I know some time has passed since we have spoken. But you are still in my thoughts and I will never forget you and the sacrifice that your Jeffrey made for us. He is a true hero and for that I will always be grateful. I know that he is in Heaven and is standing tall and proud with Velton, watching over us all. Take care.

Julie Locklear Angulo
Proud Sister of SGT Velton Locklear III
Killed in Iraq, 9/23/06

My dearest Baby Boy,
It makes me sad to look here and know that I am the only one who writes in here anymore. I knew that everyone would go on with their every day lives but I have a hard time excepting it all the same. I miss you and I still hold out hope that you will walk in the door and ask "what is there to eat". I miss you laughter that always filled the house like a familiar childhood smell of my Mother baking a cake. I miss your eyes and how they would light up with embaresment when we would surprise you with a party. I miss your voice and you just talking about every day things and how you would get excited about something you truly believed in. I think about you every minute of every day and the pain is still as sharp and fresh as it was at first. I can't stand that tomorrow will bring me 1 month closer to the 3 year mark of when you were killed. I still long for you and my gut wrenches with pain just thinking of being without you for the rest of my life. I know that our time together was way to short but that our time in heaven will have no limit. I know we will see each other once again but if the Lord chose to take me home tonight it would not be soon enough. Your littlest brother misses you and talks about you all the time. He remembers how he would always win when you guys would wrestle, he thinks it was all his doing, not realizing you surrendered to him to make him feel stronger. He worries about Stephen now that he is in the Army, he is worried that God will take Stephen to soon like he took you. He is so much like you and that makes me long for the days when you were little. Your other little brother misses you also but it saddens him to much to talk about it so he buries it deep inside of him like someone would bury a treasure, deep, so deep no one will ever find it.He is doing good in basics and is awaiting his graduation on the 27th of this month. I know that day will be bitter sweet and we will all be wishing you were there to see him come marching in. He has come a long way and I am proud of him and I know you would be also. I cry when I think of never hearing your laughter again and I laugh when I think that you will never shed another tear nor will you ever know pain again. I cry when I think of all the things you are missing with Makayla, and yet I smile when I see how much she is like you. Her eyes, they are your eyes, her laugh is yours, her smile is all you. Even though she will never know you she is so you, and we are so very blessed to have her in our lives. I pray you will be there when I reach the gates of heaven and you will take me to meet my Lord and Savior. There will be peace in my life once more on that day. I am so proud of the man you became I just wish we had more time together. I love you and nothing not even time will ever lessen the love I carry in my heart for you. I just miss you so much, and I just want to wake up from this nightmare. I love ya Mom.
I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

Dear Baby,
Well we went to the cemetery on Memorial Day to leave a wreath and flowers for you, our Hero. The head stone still hasn't been fixed it is actualy worse I don't know if Phillps will ever honor his word and fix it all we can do is pray and hope he will. I took a letter to read to you that I had written to you when you were only 10 years old. The letter has been sealed and in the safe for you to receive when I died, well we know how well that didn't work out huh. I didn't read it to you after all I just couldn't bring myself to do it, you should be the one to read it because I should have went first. I love you so much that I don't care anymore what anyone says, this does not get any easier. The pain is still just as intense as ever and if anything it is worse because it has just been to long since you have been home. Stephen is graduating a year early and will be going Army Infantry just like his brother. I pray for the pain to ease up and the tears still flow all the time. I look forward to the day that we will be together again. I miss you and remember all the guys your unit lost on Memorial Day and I remember all of those lost in War and their families in my prayers. I'll see ya soon. Love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Your favorite Mama lol

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Dear baby boy,
Today is hard it has been 2 years and 6 months to the day that you were killed and taken from my life forever. I have been panicing just waiting for today. Thinking of all of it over and over just makes my heart race and it takes my breathe away thinking of the rest of my future without you. I am so very sad, and still have anger in my heart because I know how much potiential you had and how much talent you have to give. I just go back and forth on trying to find out how to justify you being killed. I know you are an honorable man, and people hold you high as a Hero, but some times, no most of the time, that is just not enough for me. I hear what people say when they say I have two other sons and I know that but they don't replace you, just as you could never replace them. I miss our movie time and the fact that you loved to be hugged. I want you home with me and I know that is just my selfessness, but what parent isn't selfess in that since. No one other than one who has lost knows this pain. I just wish that wishes could come true, because all I do is wish for you back. My thoughts are always on you and no matter if I removed everything of yours from this house and never set eyes on it again, I would still think of you every day because you are in my heart, my whole heart. The frustration that goes on within me is an all out war all the time. They say with time all wounds will heal but this is a wound to deep for healing and so I just want the wound to close, just a little. There are memories of you all the time and I find myself smiling when Dad and I tallk about them. Then when I think that thoes are all the memories I will ever have it makes me said, no new memories. I feel a loss that is undecribeable at times. Dad says I put on a good face when I am out in public, but boy oh boy when I get home do I let go. This is hard it is just so hard sometimes it seems impossible and then I find myself waking up to a new day. I will be so happy when I see you again. I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Love you Jeffy
Mama

well it's been a really bad few days for me, what with your birthday on the 1st and mamas on the 14th it just hits too hard. I sat in my room on saturday and mad a wreath for you and one for mama. I picked out the flowers with care and love and choose just what I thought would look good, then Addrin pick out some flowers with the same love and care only they didn't match either set of flowers I was going to use. I put them on the wreath because I knew what it meant to him to have the flowers he choose on there for you and mama. We went to the cemetery on Sunday your birthday and with Addrin not feeling well I told him we wouldn't stay long, in his small sweet and understanding voice he said "oh no Mama you take your time I know how much you miss him". He was such the little man. I have of course crashed and burned since then, just laying in the bed and wishing all of this world was over for me. The pain worsens with each birthday and every day that marks another year. I love you and I just miss you so much and want you back to much sometimes. I know you are safe now and will never know hurt again but thoes of us left here still know hurt, me on a daily base. I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

It saddens me that it took me so long to find this guestbook. I served with jeff in Ramadi, and I had the privlage to call him my friend. I remember taking our leave together and meeting his wonderful family. My prayers are with you always.

Dear Jeffrey,
Well Christmas came and went fast as a flash, but the house was quieter without you in it. I so long for the Christmas you were going to spend with us in 2006. I want to hear your laughter and see your deep brown eyes. I miss you so that my insides ache all the time. The tears still flow on a daily basis, that is one thing that hasn't stopped through the years. It seems as if you just left us and at the same time it seems as if it has been a forever ago since we seen you last. I am dreading January and my birthday just knowing my last happy birthday was when I picked you up at the airport for a visit. I long to hold your sweet face in my hands and to hear you say Mamaaaaa the way only you did. I am hoping to see you soon and hoping you would come to me in a dream but still no Jeffrey. I love you and will forever ache for you and the life you should have been able to live out. I long for the wedding you should have had and for the many children you should have fathered. Your baby girl is growing up without you and without your love and laughter, and that kills apart of me every time I think of it. I only hope and pray that some day she will know how much you loved her to go off to war to protect her and her freedoms. God bless and hold you near my baby boy. I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

My Baby Boy,
Well it has been a while since I have gotten on here. It is so painful to see the things that make this nightmare a reality. I miss you each and every day and so wish you were here to talk to. Stephen goes on the 30th of this month to take his test to join the Army Reserves and will go active in May of 2010 when he graduates. I am proud of him for doing this but at the same time I am terrified. He is growing into his own and has his mind made up as to what he wants out of life. I have to admitt I think he too will look handsome in an Army uniform. I talked to Ray the other day and then to his wife she said he misses you something terrible and that when he is out on missions he feels you with him. I reassured her that if you could be any where it would be watching your daughter grow up and watching over your friends in the sandbox. I feel so empty and at times it is all I can do just to hold on to what string of life I have left. I grieve for you every min of every day and pray that my pain will be eased some, not yet but maybe some day? I love you and miss you, Mama
I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

I am thinking of the family of Jeffrey today. There are no words that I can say to ease the pain in your hearts.

It takes a very special person to do what Jeffrey did. He is a hero and we will never forget his sacrfice.

You are loved and missed by many. Thank you Jeffrey.

To Lisa,
I have been thinking of you and wanted to contact you on the 13th but was out of town for a family emergency. Please know that I think of you often and hope you are doing well. Take care.

Proud Sister of SGT Velton Locklear III, Killed in Iraq on 9/23/06

Holding you all in my thoughts and prayers.


The Wind on The Downs

“I like to think of you as brown and tall,
As strong and living as you used to be,
In khaki tunic, Sam Brown belt and all,
And standing there and laughing down at me.
Because they tell me, dear, that you are dead,
Because I can no longer see your face,
You have not died, it is not true, instead
You seek adventure in some other place.
That you are round about me, I believe;
I hear you laughing as you used to do,
Yet loving all the things I think of you;
And knowing you are happy, should I grieve?
You follow and are watchful where I go.”

(Written by Marian Allen during World War l )

Two lines that I wish you to keep near your heart…….

“You seek adventure in some other place.
That you are round about me, I believe”


I did not know Jeffrey, but I am remembering
his service. He is my hero. !

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

The Other Side

i'm over on the other side
where life and death softly divide.
left my skin and bones behind
now i'm over on the other side.

can you feel me there with you?
my breath is gone but i'm not through.
loved you then and i still do
from over on the other side.

i can fly. really fly.
below the earth ... all through the sky.
tell em all i did not die.
i'm just over on the other side.

it's good here on the other side.
the sweetest songs...the bluest skies.
thank you for the tears you cried
but it's good here on the other side.

i can fly. really fly. below the earth...all through the sky.
tell em all i did not die.
i'm just over on the other side

the world is smaller than a needle's eye.
where life and death softly divide.
when you leave your skin and bones behind
i'll be waiting on the other side.

i can fly. really fly. below the earth ... all through the sky.
go tell em all i did not die.
i'm just over on the other side.

Song lyrics by Don Conoscenti
C Desert Muse/SESAC
www.donconoscenti.com
(Used with permission)

“I hope it brings great comfort to any and all.
Peace on you. DonCon” 4-2008


The Other Side –
(To hear the song)
http://tinyurl.com/3o8gol



Sincerely,

Deb Estep ~ Ohio
Proud Air Force Mom SSgt Vince – Lackland AFB
Proud Air Force MIL SrA Dana – Randolph AFB

Remembering The Fallen – Blog
http://tinyurl.com/3z8p55

Angel and soldier drawing I have shared here.
http://tinyurl.com/6gey8b

Jeff i woke up early this morning thinking of you. Somehow writing in this guest book is like you hear me. Want you to know we love and miss you. And thats everyday. We talk about you often the kids are very prond of you and love to bragg about you. We all do miss you so much youll never be forgotton...love ya...Aunt Debbie

I miss you & thank you for all you have done for me. I have tears in my eyes that can never be brushed away, a piece missing from my heart that you took with you, & a hole in my soul that will never be filled.

Love You Jeff,
YOUR SWEETHEART

My sweet baby boy,
I miss you each and every day and wish you were here with me still. I know you are in a better place, no more battles to fight, no more tears to shed. I am thinking of you on this the 4th of July and remembering how you love the fireworks. I wish you where here so we could watch them together. I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck forever and ever.
Lisa Adams Proud Gold Star Mother
of Spc. Jeffrey Shaffer KIA Iraq
9-13-06

We still miss you with all of our hearts. Those of us with our own children know how difficult it is to see our child live with danger. We are very proud of you but wish you were still with us. What an honor it is to have known such a remarkable soldier.

hello lisa:
i see you received roses for your 3 boys. how cool is that. my only hope is that you continue to remember there are 2 roses left to grow. i pray that you are giving them the nourishment they need and deserve. i pray you understand that you have 2 live roses that still need you. the loss of jeffrey is terrible and i know how you feel. losing a son (daughter) is the hardest to deal with. i truly know. but i also have 4 roses left that need me. may god give you peace and strenght to endure your loss. may you always know He is there and He now has your jeffrey, your own very special angel and protector. may god send His healing grace. our family is praying for you and sending love your way. i can only say blessed are you to have loved such a special guy, blessed are you to have known such a special guy, blessed are you to RAISED such a special guy. BLESSED ARE YOU, REMEMBER THAT. There are some who have had less years with a special someone. BLESSED ARE YOU AND LOVED ARE YOU.

Hi Baby, We thought of you this past week and wish you were here with us. We miss you so. For the first time ever we flew a flag in your and Grandpas honor. We honor you love and will always hold our time together in our memory and our hearts. GOD BLESS YOU SWEETIE. Grauntie and Pawncle

Thank you Jeffery for sacrafice that you made for me and all other Americans. You are a hero. May God Bless your Mom and family.

Dearest Jeffrey,

Last Saturday it was Brent's 21st birthday and we talked about you and all the laughs we had. We truly miss you and I know that you will always be in our hearts. We love you very much.

Love,
Your cousin,

You are remembered and respected. Thank you Spc Shaffer!

God Bless you and your family !

Just thinking of you today. Your sacrifice will ALWAYS be remembered. Continue to Rest in peace Spc. Shaffer. God bless you.

Sweetheart our thoughts and love are with you this week and everyday. Your Dad(Paul) spoke of you only yesterdayand how very much we miss you and that great smile and personality. GOD BLESS YOU . Love, Grauntie

Jeffy,
Today is Mothers Day and it feels so empty in a big way. I think of you every minute of every day even still. Dad gave me 3 white roses one for each of you boys. He also wrote a beautiful card for me. He said 3 roses, Jeffrey, Stephen, and Addrin
The stem is their nurishment, the leaves their shade from the outside elements, the thorns, their protection. Their beauty, the worlds to see....
As a rose bud developes they stay on the inside of the bush, but as they begin to open they reach for the sun and leave the protection of the bush. what a shame it would be if the roses stayed hid for us all Not to see. He didn't think I got it but I did I am the bush and I tried to keep you for myself, never to let you wonder off into the world, but you reached for the sun and became a man, and I am so glad that others in the world got to know you and see what a wonderful person you became. I love you and miss you dearly. Mama
I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

Jeffrey,
Well today is your baby girls 4th birthday and I don't know where the time has gone. You would be so proud of her, she has your sweet smile, curly hair and big brown eyes and she knows how to use them to get her way, just like you use to do. I know this may seem strange to some people but I just feel like I can talk things out here, things I need to talk to you about. I miss you so very much and it just gets harder every day with out you. I want to see your smile, I just want you to call home and let me know you are ok and you will be home soon. I just want to wake up and have everything back the way it was before 9-13-06 and I don't ever want to relive that day or any of the rest of them I have lived since then. I just long for you and one of your strong hugs, the ones where you didn't want to let go. Oh God how much it hurts, how very much it hurts. I just want the hurting to stop..
I love you a bushel and a peck and a strong hug around the neck.
Mama

Dear Jeffrey,
Well it has come and gone and I just didn't know how I would live through it, but I still remain here to forever feel the pain that has taken over my heart. It was one of the worst days yet, just the thought that you would have been back here in Texas and at Ft. Hood and this year we could have celebrated your 23rd Birthday together. I was to go to Miss Ashleys party but could not bear the day, much less being around people. I know I should be ashamed but I hurt, I JUST HURT SO MUCH. I see you in my arms at the Hospital on the day you were born and the very first prayer I said for you was the one I continued to say every night until the day came and you could say it all by yourself. I slept a lot so as not to have to deal with the pain but like always it overcame me that night and all the next day. It is just wrong to be here without you and your sweet smile. I so miss you and all the things about you, I long to hold you and hear you call out to me. I Will See You Again some day, but until then I will be lost and my heart will remain broken, and the tears will continue to flow.....
Love ya sweet baby boy of mine.........Mama
I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. Mama

Jeffrey,
Happy Belated Birthday in Heaven. May God hold you in the palm of His hand. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

My Dearest Sweet Nephew, My thoughts are on you daily. I miss you so very much, I can sometimes think you are going to walk through the door any minute. Guess its still so hard for me to believe. You were the love of our lives. Pawncle is doing better now,he grieved for you so. He has had a horrible time but hes getting back on the right track.You were his buddy and best friend and I know no one person will ever get that close to him again. We love you with all our hearts and will never forget how you affected our lives. God bless you sweetie and maybe someday I will see you again. Love You, Grauntie

My dearest son,
It has been to long since I have been graced by the sound of your voice and the smile that always found a safe place on your lips. I miss your deep brown eyes and the curl to your black hair. I was given pictures of you from when you were a toddler the other day from a special person and enjoyed seeing your smiling face. It is so very hard to believe you will turn 23 in March, oh how the years flew by. I still cry everyday and miss you every min. of every day. I know you will always be a part of me for you still live in my heart as strong today as you did from before you were born. I love you and hope to see you soon.
Love Mama
I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.... Mama

Dear Jeffy,
It does not seem real that it has been almost 16 months since you were last on this earth and almost 2 years since you came home for a visit. My eyes have shed many tears to many to count and my head has laid on my pillow without rest many a night too. I long for you to be here and yet I know in my head it will not be, but at the same time my heart still wishes it will be. Know you are loved and missed every min. of every day. Oh my baby boy how I just want to hear your voice and see the smile on your face. I know you are home but I want you to come home to me a selfess Mothers wish.
Love ya like no one else does

I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.
Mama

I MISS YOU SO MUCH! I miss that amazing smile that was always on your face...I can't believe it has already been a year! I love and miss you more and more everyday! My Cousin, My Soldier, MY HERO!

Jeffrey,
You are a special and brave man to have taken the road you took to war. There are not many out there like you, you are a Hero. Thank you for your sacrifice and I know in my heart you are in a beautiful place where peace is forever present. I also know tht you are with my brother and you two are watching over all of us.

Proud Sister of SGT Velton Locklear
Killed in Iraq, 9/23/06

the nights are long but the days are longer.
the smiles are less and the laughter not as loud.
the tears flow freely never to stop.
the memories are stronger than ever because that is all we have left.
the pain is stronger because our time apart has been long...to long.
I miss you and love you and can't bare the thought of you not being around...... so I sleep.
I have found a great friend in sleep a better friend then ever I thought.
My eyes will forever shed tears for you until we meet again in the sky so blue.
Jeffrey I miss and love you........
to long have you been gone to long this nightmare I have dreamt.
just come home and make things right that is my dream I will dream for tonight.
love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck
MAMA
sleep tight my sweet baby boy

There is nothing that I can say or do to take away the pain or bring you peace in your time of sorrow, but I will offer you and your family my heart felt condolences. I also offer you my prayers that in time the pain will easy and the memories of your HERO will carry you through each day and night. I want to thank your HERO, for his/her selfless act of becoming a member of the armed forces, his/her willingness to defend the United States of America, all that we hold sacred and for the sacrifice that will forever be etched in the memories of all those who knew him/her. Though tears can never bring him/her back, we hope that our tears express our gratitude for the sacrifice that he/she made and our sorrow at his/her passing. I believe for every fallen HERO there is a star shining brightly up above to remind us of the precious gift we were given.

Your mission on earth is complete and you are now a member of GOD’s Heavenly armed forces. Stand down brave warrior and take your rightful place in Heaven with all the HEROES who have passed before.

I made a special promise to LE RON A. WILSON, a dear family friend who joined the Army with three other friends, one of whom is my son (Le Ron was killed in action on 07/06/07 at the age of 18) on the day he was laid to rest as I touched his coffin, that I would never forget him nor would I forget those that gave their lives for our country before him, with him and after him and so when I came across www.legacy.com, I thought what a great way to keep my promise to Le Ron, so I will continue to leave tributes in each guest book until the day there is no longer the need to leave these tributes to a FALLEN HERO.

REST IN PEACE, HERO, YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN!!

PROUD MOTHER OF A U.S. SOLDIER
Currently stationed in Germany
Althea Barrett(Queens, NY)

Jeffrey,
It is almost 11 months since you have been gone and I still think of you every min of every day. I pray God will take my pain from me or at least numb it a little. I wish you could call me of email me so I could talk to you once more. I miss your smile and I want to hear you laugh loud again. Dad and I talk about you all the time and Addrin says how much he misses you and wants his big brother back home where he belongs. I just want you to come back home it has been to long without you around.
Love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. MAMA

Thank you for the sacrifice made by Spc Shaffer and the sacrifice made by everyone who loves and misses him! May God bless all of you!!

Spc. Jeffrey P. Shaffer
you are my hero
may god keep you in his arms forever.

to the family of jeffrey, my name is marchelle and i am so sorry for your loss. i wanted to say thank you for standing w/my family. lcpl johnny strong was my newphew. he was my sisters only son. i think my mom is having the hardest time accepting his early homegoing. i too sit around and it does not feel real. im am sure the emptiness will get filled as long as we all depend on God and Jesus. We must allow them to fill our emptiness. for through them only peace and wholeness will come. the pain will subside i am sure. through johnny i have been opened to the pain of other families who suffered such losses. im an sorry that we share this experience. may god grant you and your family peace.

My baby boy,
Well the 4th came and went but not without thoughts of you all day. Dad, Addrin and I went to the cemetery and cleaned up around yours and grammies stones. The rain we have been getting has really made the grass come up but with that weeds came too. I don't know what is worse going and knowing that I will find all of this nightmare to be true, or the since of abandoning you when we finnaly leave. I hate both parts and it makes me sick inside. I feel such a hole in the pit of my stomache all the time because I miss you so very very much. I don't see this pain easing a bit but we do unfortunatly go on hour by hour. I love you and I miss your sweet smile and your voice. There is a deep dark hole where my heart use to be. I know that I will see you some day it just wont be soon enough for me. Tears soak my pillow every night and pain fills my heart it is too much to bare most of the time and no one but Dad knows and still his is not as deep as mine.
I'll love you til the day I take my last breath and then some. I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.......
Mama

My sweet boy
There's not a day goes by that your not on my mind. But days like today on the 4th of July you are there even more. We are so proud of you. And so many people still ask about you and also miss you. J.D. and Ashley will never be the same after losing you. You have taught them lessons in life(by making them proud) and death (something I wished they didn't have to learn)but we are all so very proud of you and miss you more than anyone knows. So I say Thank you on this 4th because I'm an American. And I say I love and miss till my heart hurts because I'm your Aunt. I miss you and I miss your Mom. That day I lost you and my best friend and I pray for her everyday just as I do you..love you..Aunt Debbie

Jeffrey, It has been 9 months today that they brought my little man home to me and not the way I wanted. We still stand with the Patriot Guard an honor our fallen only it takes on a different meaning for us now. Today we stood for Lcpl. Johnny Ray Strong he was too from Waco. We know the pain that the family will feel for it is as strong today as it was on the day we were told you had been KILLED. I have a very hard time with waking up and finding that no it was not just a horrible nightmare. I still lay down at night and I so just let me wake up to my old life that's all I want. It never happens no matter how long or how hard I ask God to just give you back. This pain is no easier to handle today than 9 months ago and I know that I will forever cry and long for you. I want to hear you say Maaaamaaaa the way you use to draw it out on the answering machine. I long for your laughter and just to see your smile in person. I always see your smile when I close my eyes but it is not the same. I long for the day I will be with you and I want to feel your hug again. Addrin misses you and talks a lot about you, he wants to go into the Army just like you and he only wants the rank of Spc. just like you. I love you and I cry every day for you my heart will forever be broken. Mama
I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck.
Lisa Adams Proud Mother of an American Hero that's you Jeffrey.