By: Leslie Rangel
Friends are calling the victim of a crash a fallen Marine a casualty, not on the battlefield but on the freeway.
He was a man trying to improve his life and overcome post traumatic stress disorder.
State troopers say 49-year-old Scott Kiesel of Orange, died in the collision at about 8:30 Monday night on Interstate 10 near Rose City.
He tried to walk across the highway when a driver from Beaumont struck him.
Friends of the victim say he was working to get off the streets and make a better life for himself.
Men and women with the Disabled American Veterans Service Group, Post 236 in Vidor, gather to sign a flag in memory of their fallen friend.
"Scott was a helper and he was a former Marine, we knew him as that," Bruce Lockett, a Pastor for the church Keisel went to said.
Keisel, was a man on the road to recovery. Veterans in his support group say he suffered from PTSD following his service in the 1980's.
"He was just that kind of person, he was working on the church, trying to help the church, really trying to get his life organized and get back in line with things and we're going to miss him terribly," Lockett says.
Lockett is the pastor at First Pentecostal Church in Vidor.
He says they offered help to Keisel any way they could.
"It was a difficult time and we prayed together, we cried together we were with him beside him, encouraged him, he said he really felt like he had love here and the hugs of other veterans, they accepted him," Lockett says.
Those who knew Kiesel say he was a good man, fighting for his life.
"When I came in, he was around the church working, associated with us and the DAV, he was a unique individual in that he's not alone but then he is alone," Gary Warren, post commander of their group says.
An emptiness the veterans couldn't fill, a battle they'll continue fighting on behalf of others who suffer from PTSD.
"We have to go on and try to find others that we can help with always remembering the back of our mind the Scott's that we were not able to help," Warren said.
While the veterans here grieve with heavy hearts, the loss of their brother in arms.
A church service is planned for Keisel on Friday at 4 o' clock at First Pentecostal Church in Vidor.
An account has been set up for his family at Dupont Goodrich under the Biker Care Unit of Southeast Texas in care of Scott Keisel.
The account number is 7018880-00.
By: Leslie Rangel
Friends are calling the victim of a crash a fallen Marine a casualty, not on the battlefield but on the freeway.
He was a man trying to improve his life and overcome post traumatic stress disorder.
State troopers say 49-year-old Scott Kiesel of Orange, died in the collision at about 8:30 Monday night on Interstate 10 near Rose City.
He tried to walk across the highway when a driver from Beaumont struck him.
Friends of the victim say he was working to get off the streets and make a better life for himself.
Men and women with the Disabled American Veterans Service Group, Post 236 in Vidor, gather to sign a flag in memory of their fallen friend.
"Scott was a helper and he was a former Marine, we knew him as that," Bruce Lockett, a Pastor for the church Keisel went to said.
Keisel, was a man on the road to recovery. Veterans in his support group say he suffered from PTSD following his service in the 1980's.
"He was just that kind of person, he was working on the church, trying to help the church, really trying to get his life organized and get back in line with things and we're going to miss him terribly," Lockett says.
Lockett is the pastor at First Pentecostal Church in Vidor.
He says they offered help to Keisel any way they could.
"It was a difficult time and we prayed together, we cried together we were with him beside him, encouraged him, he said he really felt like he had love here and the hugs of other veterans, they accepted him," Lockett says.
Those who knew Kiesel say he was a good man, fighting for his life.
"When I came in, he was around the church working, associated with us and the DAV, he was a unique individual in that he's not alone but then he is alone," Gary Warren, post commander of their group says.
An emptiness the veterans couldn't fill, a battle they'll continue fighting on behalf of others who suffer from PTSD.
"We have to go on and try to find others that we can help with always remembering the back of our mind the Scott's that we were not able to help," Warren said.
While the veterans here grieve with heavy hearts, the loss of their brother in arms.
A church service is planned for Keisel on Friday at 4 o' clock at First Pentecostal Church in Vidor.
An account has been set up for his family at Dupont Goodrich under the Biker Care Unit of Southeast Texas in care of Scott Keisel.
The account number is 7018880-00.
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