“Another big thing for me was, when it’s your time, it’s your time. You can’t worry about when you’re going to die, how long you’re going to live. Especially while you’re over there. You just got to do your stuff, do your mission, do what’s asked of you.
If it’s my time to go, it’s my time to go. That really came into realization for me while I was over there. If you sat there and thought about it you weren’t doing your job correctly because that’s all you were thinking about.”
“Two combat tours taught Craig Birkholz the uncertainty of life … He died far from the roadside bombs and terrorists, but still wearing a uniform. Still in service. He was shot in the chest rushing to help a fellow Fond du Lac police officer at the home of a sexual assault suspect.”