Tony Kidd traveled halfway around the world to be killed by an M1A1 Abrams main battle tank that rolled off the General Dynamics assembly line two miles from his parents' house in Lima, Ohio.

"Typical" is a word that many people use to describe him, even his parents. He was a typical boy, a typical young man, a typical infantry grunt.

 

But what happened to him in the service of his country was anything but typical.