Roadside bomb takes life of Michael Deason

Army Staff Sergeant was to return home from Iraq on Thursday

The first time U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Michael Deason saw his 1-year-old daughter Kayler was on Christmas. War and hope separated the father and daughter while Deason was serving his country in Iraq.

Just six days before Deason was to return to his family in Farmington, a roadside bomb in Iraq ripped the opportunity for this young man and his wife to share precious memories many people take for granted.

Deason will never get to see his child's first step, or hear those "Good-night, I love you daddy." He will never have those times when his children look up at him with those big eyes of unconditional love.

The roadside bomb that exploded Wednesday near the convoy Deason was traveling in, killed him.

"I hate this," Deason's wife, Tiffany said. "My children have been cheated out of getting to know their father. They are too young right now to understand what has happened, but their father was such a good person and died a hero. He only got to see our daughter for two weeks out of her life. He was just six days from coming home."

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