It's interesting that what people do one day can have an effect on so many others years after the event.
Matt Lynch is one of those people. Lynch was a two-sport athlete at Duke. Actually, he was much more than that — he was a Duke student who excelled in the classroom, on the baseball field, in the swimming pool and, in the end, was a hero making the greatest sacrifice in service to his country.
Lieutenant Matthew D. Lynch, Duke class of 2001, died in Iraq on October 25, 2004, after suffering injuries from the flying shrapnel of a roadside bomb explosion near Ramadi, the capital of the Al Anbar province.