Mokri, 26, who played forward on his high school varsity soccer team, was a criminal justice graduate of Texas State University. He had other options, but enlisted to fight and died with four others in Iraq last week when a bomb exploded near their vehicle. His father, Mohammed, is an immigrant from Iran.
"Yari was a leader," his sister Desiree said at the family home in Pflugerville, northeast of Austin." His confidence and charisma allowed people around him to be safe and supportive and important."
Meanwhile, no matter how the MSM tries to spin it as the march of the ignorant and disadvantaged, the heroes keep coming. Army enlistments continue to hold steady and even to rise a little. They were 105 percent of the goal in November.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 