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As with many young people, it was the military that had given him this precious gift. It was the Marines that took a young man who struggled in school, struggled to find a direction, and gave him the discipline to achieve his goals.Ty had started college in Oklahoma but without direction or commitment eventually dropped out. At age 26, “Tyrell was, in many ways, lost,†his mother recalls. He went to a Navy recruitment office, most likely because his grandfather was a Navy veteran, but that office was closed at the moment, so the Marines got him. He told no one he was going to enlist.His entire military service was overseas — three tours in Iraq.In November 2007, four and a half years of wrenching worry came to a merciful end when Ty finally came home, honorably discharged as a sergeant. At last she had a chance to get to know her older son again, and it was a bit like getting to know someone new. He was 31 now, focused and grounded.“I witnessed the man my son had become,†she says. And one of the things he was focused on was getting the college degree that had eluded him in his early 20s. He wanted to come to The University of Texas at Austin and study psychology.On February 11, 2008, Tyrell was gearing up to do just that when he was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Austin...http://texasleadermagazine.utexas.edu/in-tys-place/?utm_campaign=VPRD_FY17-18_Newsletter_J2C%20Texas%20Leader_EML&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elqTrackId=70668e662b304af390c3f025916b2349&elq=fe22e33187034a088c3d6f113aad7fcc&elqaid=4616&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3226
