Memorial Day; Interview with a Hero on the Flipside

Memorial Day — an interview with an American Hero on the Flipside — Major Brent Taylor

Major Brent Taylor Brent Russell Taylor (July 6, 1979 — November 3, 2018) was an American politician and Army National Guard officer. He served as mayor of North Ogden, Utah from January 2013 until November 2018, when he was killed while serving in Afghanistan.The following is a transcript of an interview Jennifer Shaffer and I did with Major Brent Taylor. It was just after he passed, and he didn’t think it was the right time for us to inform his family that he was okay, that he had not died — he was just in “another place.”

But he was hero to his family, to his town, to his country. When he passed, my wife Sherry mentioned that she had seen a photograph of his wife, and something told her that we should reach out to him in our weekly interviews. We did last November.

This morning (May 2nd) she reminded me that “it’s time” that I post what was learned from him on the flipside.

And as an early Memorial Day post, I am putting this post up for his family and friends to see. (It bears repeating; our loved ones don’t die. They move on — but they are not gone. They’re just not here.)