ORANGE PARK – St. Michael’s Soldiers supported the men and women deployed with the U.S. military at the Rock the Box 3 on Saturday, Oct. 7. In addition to a concert from Aaron Lewis, a highlight …
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ORANGE PARK – St. Michael’s Soldiers supported the men and women deployed with the U.S. military at the Rock the Box 3 on Saturday, Oct. 7. In addition to a concert from Aaron Lewis, a highlight of the evening at the Thrasher-Horne Center was the surprise presentation of a wooden flag created by Brad Satcher’s The Patriot’s Barn to J.W. Johnson, whose son was killed in a 2017 ambush in Niger. Johnson’s son, Jeremiah, was posthumously promoted to Sergeant First Class after he and three fellow members of the Army were ambushed by armed terrorists with the Islamic State of the Greater Sahara. J.W. Johnson (from left) was overwhelmed when he was given the flag by Satcher and Jim Signorile of St. Michael’s Soldiers. “I was proud to be involved in this project,” Satcher said. “We spent a lot of time putting this together and making sure it was a surprise. It was our honor to say thank you to a Gold Star father.” St. Michael’s Soldiers is a Middleburg-based nonprofit that supports active military and their families.