Gold Star mom tells Bay Ridge students about her late son’s love for U.S.
A mother whose son was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan while serving in the US Marines came to a Bay Ridge Catholic school Friday morning to tell students about her child and to urge the kids to proudly fly the American flag on Memorial Day.
Julie Schrock, of Lone Tree Colorado, who was in Brooklyn to serve as one of the grand marshals in the Kings County Memorial Day Parade, visited Saint Anselm Catholic Academy on 83rd Street, where she told a group of students how she is coping with the loss of her son.
Her son, Marine Cpl. Max Donahue, died in Afghanistan in 2010. “We miss Max very much,” Schrock told the students. “I’m so proud of who he was and what he was doing. He was serving his country.”