{"id":17776,"date":"2014-08-19T17:26:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T21:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/?p=17776"},"modified":"2021-04-13T17:37:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T21:37:28","slug":"andrew-thomas-mccaffrey-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/?p=17776","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Thomas McCaffrey, 48"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/McCaffrey-Andrew-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/McCaffrey-Andrew-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/McCaffrey-Andrew-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/McCaffrey-Andrew-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/McCaffrey-Andrew-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/McCaffrey-Andrew-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/McCaffrey-Andrew-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Andrew Thomas McCaffrey<br>Arlington\u2014Andrew\n Thomas McCaffrey, passed away on August 19, 2020. Andrew was born on \nMarch 3rd, 1972 to Michael and Barbara McCaffrey. He is preceded in \ndeath by his father, Michael. He is survived by his beloved wife, Karen \nBarefield, his children, Brandon and Izabel, and his step-son, Jason. He\n is also survived by his brothers, Phil and Steve McCaffrey, and his \nmother Barbara McCaffrey, as well as many beloved friends. A visitation \nwill be held Tuesday, September 8th from 2pm-6pm at Murphy Funeral Homes\n Arlington. Burial at Arlington National Cemetery will be at a later \ndate. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Mindful \nMemorial Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shared from a Facebook post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We lost another  warrior last night. Retired U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Andrew  McCaffrey did what he said he would never do, he took his own life. Andy  was the most intense soldier I ever met. He was a warrior&#8217;s warrior.  His hand was blown off by a defective grenade. He fought the Army to  stay on active duty with an intensity that was awe-inspiring. And  against all odds, he beat them and went on to serve 2 more tours  downrange as an active special forces operator. Details aside his return  to the non-combat Army was less than fully successful and he ended up  retiring before he wanted to. I don&#8217;t think he knew how to ratchet down  that intensity level and the Army and the VA didn&#8217;t have the tools to  help him with that. I found 2 photos of him that I believe capture the man that I knew. He is one of the &#8220;22&#8221;. He poured every ounce of his  being into being the best warrior he could be and at that, he succeeded.  I hope you are finally at peace, Andy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image13.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17779\" width=\"484\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image13.jpeg 414w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image13-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image13-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image09-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17780\" width=\"784\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image09-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image09-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image09-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image09-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image09-450x300.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image09-272x182.jpeg 272w, https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image09.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Thomas McCaffreyArlington\u2014Andrew Thomas McCaffrey, passed away on August 19, 2020. Andrew was born on March 3rd, 1972 to Michael and Barbara McCaffrey. He is preceded in death by his father, Michael. He is survived by his beloved wife, Karen Barefield, his children, Brandon and Izabel, and his step-son, Jason. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorial-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17781,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17776\/revisions\/17781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}