
LAKE CITY, S.C. —Family and friends remembered Sgt. Maj. Michael Stack as a deeply religious man and a soldier who had a deep sense of mission.
The 48-year-old Stack was killed on Easter Sunday in Iraq. He was manning a machine gun on a Humvee when his 12-man Special Forces team was ambushed.
Stack was buried April 30 in Arlington National Cemetery. On May 2, family and friends attended a memorial service at Lynches River Free Will Baptist Church.
“More than anything else, Mike Stack was a soldier’s soldier,” said the Rev. Gerald Owens, a former pastor of the church. “He fought for what was right. And regardless of how you stand on political matters, I say...