Freedom Remembered

Born: June 10, 1975 in Faribault, Minnesota
Died: November 28, 2006 in Afghanistan

Staff Sergeant Michael Shank of Bonham, Texas was a graduate of Dodd City High School. Michael always wanted to be a soldier with plans to make the Army his career. He spent a years in Iraq and had been stationed in Germany for the past three years prior to going to Afghanistan earlier in 2006. Michael was an MP (military police) and was looking forward to submitting his paperwork to become a drill sergeant. He married Brandy Nicole Guffee, April 18, 1997 at the Congregational Methodist Church in Bonham. He was a member of Boyd Baptist Church. The son of Thomas M. Shank and Jettye Lynn Starr Colbert was posthumously awarded the Combat Action Badge & Purple Heart. He was a member of Boyd Baptist Church. Michael is survived by his wife, Brandy and two daughters, KateLynn and Michaela, his Mother and father: Lynn and John Colbert, Father, Thomas Shank and wife, Joyce. His Brothers, Christopher and Ronnie, and a sister, Robyn. He was a ten-year Army veteran who had served in Iraq and had been in Afghanistan about six months when his Humvee ran over a land mine at age 31.
Army
230th Military Police Company
95th Military Police Battalion
18th Military Police Brigade
Kaiserslautern, Germany

Burial is at Willow Wild Cemetery in Bonham, Texas

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