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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Becky Bohrer

For soldier killed in Alaska crash 'family was everything'

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The mother of one of the three soldiers killed last week when two U.S. Army helicopters collided in a remote part of Alaska said her son loved his country and his family and lifted others up.

“Family was everything to him,” Stacie Weaver told The Associated Press Monday of her son, Warrant Officer 1 Stewart Duane Wayment, of North Logan, Utah, who leaves behind a wife, Kiara, and three young children.

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