Army vet Johnny West stood in the gap for me and my brother after our father died when we were young boys. He passed away on Labor Day 2023
had died. I was 11 years old, and he was in the hospital, had been for a long time. They didn’t tell us why. Not back then.
Aunt Bobbie took us home. After entering, we were ushered past many somber grownups—including our mother, sitting at the dining room table—into a bedroom where Uncle Jimmy and Johnny West awaited.I don’t recall much of what else they said, but fully know what both men did from that day forward: They stepped into the gap. They helped fill a hole in the hearts of two young boys who’d just lost their father. Filled them with guidance and love.Uncle Jimmy died in 1985.
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