By Elizabeth Dunbar and Jessica Mador, Minnesota Public Radio News

ST. PAUL — Chief Warrant Officer Corey Goodnature served in the Army for 14 years and was on his third tour of duty in Afghanistan when he was killed in 2005. He was part of a Special Forces unit, his father, Don Goodnature, said.

Goodnature, of Clarks Grove, remembers that U.S. military officials thought Osama bin Laden was hiding in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan at the time of his son’s death. Nearly six years later, Goodnature said the family still struggles with their loss.

“When you lose a child like that, you know, it’s the most important thing, [the] worst thing that could happen to you,” Goodnature said. “People pay a lot of attention right away but then as time goes on they forget. But you have to live with it. It’s something that we think about every day.”

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