How can a sunny day seem so dark and gloomy?

Yesterday, we all lost Kyle...who was serving over in Iraq but this time, never made it home. Kyle, I can't believe that you are gone. My heart is so sad not only for losing you, but for your wife Faith and your family. You were always able to make me laugh in high school even on the worst of days. You were so kind, so happy, and loved by so many. In your short 24 years here on earth you touched so many lives. Kyle...You were a husband, a father, a brother, a son, a brother in law, a friend, a solider, a HERO. I want to take this time, so say THANK YOU Kyle...You went over sea's...served for this beautiful country ... served so you could keep us all safe from harm. We're all going to miss you very much. And you will always remain in our hearts. R.I.P. Kyle.

SWANSEA —

A 24-year-old Army sergeant from this town was killed in Iraq on Saturday. Kyle Harrington was on his second tour of duty in the war-torn country.

He leaves a wife, Faith (Ryan) Harrington, and their two children, Joshua, 5, and Kaylee, 2.

His mother, Kathy Harrington of Fall River, reported that two Army personnel went to her home Saturday about 4:30 p.m. to tell her of her son’s death.

She said they advised her that he was accidently killed when a forklift operated by a fellow soldier backed over him.

“He supposedly was at a secret base” when the incident occurred, she said. “They are investigating what happened to him.”

Mrs. Harrington said her son was a marksman as well as a Humvee mechanic.

The soldier’s mother-in-law, Debra Ryan of Fall River, said not many details about his death were available from the Army.

The 2002 Case High School graduate was on an 18-month tour of duty that was set to end in August. He served his first tour, a 12-month stint, about four years ago.

“He finished school. They got married and then he enlisted,” Ryan said of her daughter and Harrington.

As a mechanic, she said, “He would go out on recovery missions to recover Humvees.”

Harrington was stationed out of Fort Lewis in Seattle, Wash.

A Fort Lewis chaplain called the soldier’s wife Saturday. Ryan answered the phone.

“He told me to put my daughter on the phone,” she said. “It’s a phone call a family would dread receiving, when the person on the other end says they’re a chaplain. You know it’s not going to be good news.”

Ryan said a memorial service will be planned, but that it will take a week for the sergeant’s body to be returned to the United States.

Harrington is also survived by his father, Dennis Harrington of Rhode Island; his sister, Elizabeth Harrington; his father-in-law, William Ryan; a sister-in-law, Rachael Ryan, all of Fall River, and a brother-in-law, Joshua Ryan of Indiana.