Army Paratrooper Benjamin Sherman died in Afghanistan attempting to save another Soldier. At a memorial service for Sherman on Veterans Day, his mother, Denise Sherman pleas with Obama to make an Afghanistan decision. Sherman is just one fallen Soldier of the many who have died while Obama delays any decision as to their fates.

Benjamin Sherman, Fallen Soldier

Benjamin Sherman jumped into a river in Afghanistan in an attempt to save a fellow soldier. The two were swept away in the current and missing for a week. Sherman’s body was recovered on Tuesday, November 10, 2009. On Veterans Day, his family and friends remembered him in his hometown of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Benjamin Sherman was an American hero, one of our volunteer army that stands in harms way in the rugged terrain of Afghanistan. His mother tearfully pleaded with the President to make a decision to either bring all of our Soldiers home or ‘finish it’, finish the war there. Her words resonate with those of us who will have, do have or have had sons and daughters deployed in the Global War on Terrorism.

The 21-year-old Paratrooper was married and a father-to-be. His wife, Patricia Sherman, is expecting their first child in just a few months. They are expecting a daughter to be named Skylah May-Marie Sherman. He served with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He died attempting to save a friend who was struggling in a river in Afghanistan. His family stated that was his nature.

Denise Sherman expressed the frustration of many of us with Barack Obama’s indecision about the war in Afghanistan while our Soldiers continue there in harm’s way.

“I am requesting because we are One Nation under God that you ask for our nation to come together and pray. To pray for all who are missing to persevere, be found safe and returned home, for those have gone before us and have made their sacrifice to our country, for those who serve our great nation to be guided and protected,” his mother wrote.

Denise Sherman urged the president to make a decision about the Afghan war.

“I think it is time that a decision is made that this country comes together and supports our troops or whatever (Obama) decides. God will guide him. But it is time. It is time,” she said.

I couldn’t agree more. Don’t continue to leave our young men and women there without a mission and without any guidance. Make a decision. They have sacrificed enough. It’s time to either bring them home or to finish it.

You can see Denise Sherman plea with Obama to make an Afghanistan decision here.