Humayan Kahn was a talented and brilliant man. He was exceptionally compassionate. He could not look at the disabled without feeling a need to help their lives to be better.
This brilliant man loved his country. As war unfolded following the attacks on USA soil on September 11, 2001, he felt compelled to take up the protection of the country. He went to fight for all of us. We lost him because of his heroic acts.
Today, facing a global pandemic we call many people heroes and they are. But, without men such as Captain Humayun Khan, we would not have a country to provide for heroes to save lives from a very vicious virus.
The greatest sacrifice an American can make is to give their life in war. Captain Khan was one of those men and his family is embraced for their loss to remind them exactly who he was and who they are.
I am sorry for the Kahn family loss, but, he fought to protect us all and we won't forget the sacrifice of a true hero and his love of this country where his immigrant family found peace and happiness.
Capt Humayun Khan (click here) - a US soldier who died fending off a suicide bomber in 2004 - has become an unlikely player in the 2016 election.
But who was the Army officer whose parents are now locked in public battle with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump?
Khan was born in 1976 and his Pakistani family immigrated to the US two years later.
They settled in Silver Spring, Maryland, where Humayun grew up with two brothers.
His father has described him as a patriotic child with a fascination for Thomas Jefferson, one of America's founders.
While in secondary school, Humayun volunteered to give swimming lessons to disabled children.
After joining the University of Virginia, he signed up for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, which prepares university students to become officers in the US military.
His father, who is a lawyer, was opposed to the move. But the younger Khan persisted.
"He wanted to give back. That's what he wanted to do," his father told the Washington Post.
After graduating from university in 2000, he served in the Army for four years and rose to the rank of captain.
