"All he wanted to do from when he was a little boy was be in the Army. He wanted to live life and enjoy himself. His family meant everything to him."
Penned through tears of unimaginable grief, they were the first words from the family of Lee Rigby as the terrible details of a murder in broad daylight unrivalled in its violence slowly started to sink in across Greater Manchester and the nation.
Lee was one of our own. A Langley lad from Middleton.