After leaving the Marines, the 33-year-old from New Jersey volunteered as a medic in Iraq during the fight against ISIS, then headed to Ukraine with an aid group he founded. Reed’s family said a shell hit his ambulance on Thursday. NBC News’ Raf Sanchez hears from those who knew Reed to remember his selfless and compassionate character.
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#PeteReed #Ukraine #Medic
Another Angel gone home. My heart feels for his family and friends. God bless him and hold him in your love.
Angel 🤣
Everyone, like this brave American, new needs to do their part to lessen the suffering of this senseless war. Pete was just one of many thousands of Americans, British, Canadians, an others around the globe who have been working in various ways in and out of this country to do exactly that.
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Thank you sir, Mr. Reed. You are an eternal hero.
Not worth dying for.
RIP Pete. Prayers for you and your family.🙏🙏🙏
Did he respawn?
Brave man, but please stay away from corrupt Slavic countrys , too dangerous.
Dam saw him in the early interview when the war was top news :/
God bless you, your family. RIP Pete Gods warrior.
I recall him in “Hunting ISIS”, all he did was try to save lives, not take them. He obviously had PTSD from his time in Iraq and he was one of those men who found it impossible to readjust back to civilian life. And once you adjust to living life “switched on” some people can never really adjust back, and Pete had found himself an aimless alcoholic before going to help the Kurds per the TV show. It’s hard to imagine a more unlikely soul to deserve death than Pete – but I hope at last he’s found peace.
Rest in Peace, hero!!
A hero. Not an American hero. A hero for decency and compassion. A hero for the world.
Good humor 😂✌🏻
Dying or going somewhere does not make you a hero, I’m sorry for his families loss and for his poor judgement
@John Hancock He saved lives in a place few even have the stones to go to. A greater man than you’ll ever be.
@Prind 14 he thought he was invincible, simple as that
@John Hancock He thought he would do something greater than himself. Its not my or his fault that you are a cowardly selfish little man. Maybe you should do some self reflection on why you are so lesser in comparison instead of hating on a hero because of your own inadequacy.
Ukraine should’ve remained neutral instead of the US staging coup d’état’s, the US started the first nuclear war and its geopolitical players will keep the US in check, being the failing hegemony is the mirror on the wall, empires come and go, carry on!
I wonder if Russia is targeting Americans more now because lately there has been more Americans deaths in Ukraine
No they don’t know who or where the Americans are.
Now Russia is killing Americans. Why is our army not deploying?
They’re going there under there own ambition. You expect them to fight and risk there life and be under the us safety bubble?
@Joe Swanson yep, a foreign military is killing Americans.
Zog mercs only hero in their own imagination 😂
Rest Easy🕊
Rest In Peace – rare you find someone as selfless like that
Brave hero!
🙏🙏🌷🙏🙏
Day 347: 78 years after WWII another boring European war target civilians.
46 Ukrainians are killed each day in Putin’s senseless war. 44 Americans are killed each day by other Americans in no war.
$1.7 Trillion was spent on the multiple failed F-35 fighter jets that was enough to house ALL the US homeless 29 times over.
So sorry. Condolences to family and friends. He was a hero saving lives. Never forgotten. God bless!
No sympathy. No wonder 50% of GOP americans are nazzy sympathizers who believe in racism.
Wait..I thought Biden said we weren’t sending troops to Ukraine 🤔
Bless his heart and bless his soul. Too bad his death would be in vain. He went there to save as many as he could. But the amount of weapons sent there means more death is coming. Not to mention he was killed in bakhmut, a place where Ukraine hide how badly things were, and failed to promptly issue evacuation for civilians and non combatants.
PLEASE: Does anyone know the name of the charity.. We have two mobile medical units in Houston we would like to send to Honor Pete: These are the real heroes of the kingdom .. God Bless You Pete..
Do you have a contact?
A true hero. Rest in peace
Life is not a video game.
RIP an amazingly brave man
Stupid man lost his life for a foreign country. Money is not worth losing your life.
Such a inspiring story.
❤️❤️❤️✊WHAT A WONDERFUL WARRIOR- WHAT A PRECIOUS MAN – WHAT A BEAUTIFUL HEART – WHAT AN INCREDIBLE HERO✊❤️❤️❤️…. 😭🌹MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO YOU HIS FAMILY WHO LOST HIM 🌹🇺🇸AMERICA MOURNS WITH YOU🇺🇸 💫🙏GOD BLESS YOU AND PROTECT YOU 🙏💫 Thank you for giving us such a gem
What a hero. Condolences to his family and friends.
muricans love fighting other’s war. so let be it.
Rest in peace as a hero
pity he didnt stay in his OWN country and defend its borders
CALL OF DUTY … HEART BREAKING ❤️
He threw his life away for the obiden crime family and a bonus check…
Russia shells Ambulances? Another *war crime.*
Warpigs!!! Must be stopped
Coleman and Reed..wow what a team. Reading this just ruined my day.
Good! That’s what you get for helping evil!
From Russia with love. Should have stayed home bucko.
Now we just need to stop washing tax payer dollars on this stupid war.
Should have sided with mother Russia
OUT OF ALL THESE GOOD AMERICANS WHY DOE,S GOD TAKE ALL OF THEM NO MATTER IF U ARE A MAN OR A WOMAN U STILL FILL SADNESS TOO CRY
Meanwhile, some Ukrainian officials are enjoying sunshines in Thailand and Dubai
What a hero honestly👏..condolences to the family.
defending a country that he has no business being in he is a hero
God help his family
Wow 33 yrs old. Only two years older than me…
Got what he deserved. Helping a enemy of Americans that are taking all of tax payers money
Sucks just to be forgotten by ur own American smh rip bro
Why do we only hear about heroes like this after they die? Too many mass shootings and ecological disasters to talk about. Not enough puff pieces at the end.
Theres many like him who are there now or were there before. Coverage was light but they did amazing work.
#MHLivingHell 💔 💔 💔
I just read through Pete’s fb wall. He was so close to being a socialist: it sounds like he had a deep love of humanity and knew who the greedy, profit-centering criminals are. If I could have 3-5 conversations with him or those like him, I could, if not convert them outright, get them started onto a path that centers humanity(he already did, but mistakenly allowed himself to be delimited by the grim political possibilities of the corporate duopoly), not profit. Seems like he was an exceptional dude. Pro-worker/anti-colonial/anti-imperial movements and thinking is on the rise all ever the world.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes . Ukraine proved to be a slaughterhouse not only for hapless Ukrainian soldiers, but even for foreign mercenaries. Iraq and Afghanistan were happy resorts in comparison.
stop drinking Joshua
Americans need this delusion, not reality, it’s too brutal, think about it. Bringing color revolution to Ukraine, that made Ukraine fight amongst themselves for 8 years, then Zelensky torn down Minsk Agreement on the behave of the west and started this war, most Americans are too fragile to handle this, they just need their Russians bad guy story so they can sleep better.
Putin must be responsible for that.
States that were bombed by the United States of America after World War II:
• Korea and China 1950-53 (Korean War)
• Guatemala 1954
• Indonesia (1958)
• Cuba (1959-1961)
• Guatemala (1960)
• Congo (1964)
• Laos (1964-1973)
• Vietnam (1961-1973)
• Cambodia (1969-1970)
• Guatemala (1967-1969)
• Grenada (1983)
• Lebanon (1983, 1984)
• Libya (1986)
• Salvador (1980)
• Nicaragua (1980)
• Iran (1987)
• Panama (1989)
• Iraq (1991) (Gulf War)
• Kuwait (1991)
• Somalia (1993)
• Bosnia (1994, 1995)
• Sudan (1998)
• Afghanistan (1998)
• Yugoslavia (1999)
• Yemen (2002)
• Iraq (1991-2003) (joint US and British troops)
• Iraq (2003-2015)
• Afghanistan (2001-2015)
• Pakistan (2007-2015)
• Somalia (2007-2008, 2011)
• Yemen (2009, 2011)
• Libya (2011, 2015)
• Syria (2014-2015)
Rest In Peace, Hero 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 🇪🇺
This is horrible
If you’re a fan of Russian trolls or despicable MAGA isolationists (hard to differentiate sometimes) just scroll on down the page.. or better still, don’t bother, they’re not worth your time… RIP Pete…
War is an excuse to practice senseless carnage, just in the name of religion, land possession, or whatever sick desires so-called “Leaders” have. Killing people for nothing, makes no sense to me. That’s why the world would be best served by eliminating the Arms Race & the Military in general. All we really need, as citizens of the world, are National Guards for our respective lands.
Well, what’s important is we got drug smuggler Brittney Griner back from Russia, right Joe?
When is the last time the White House mentioned, Paul Whelan?
A truly beautiful soul. May he have peace.
This man happens to be a medic, but there are other Americans in Ukraine’s battlefields that are there on a different capacity. The U.S. government often refers to them as “volunteers,” but that is usually just a code word for government sponsored “covert” soldiers. They make up Kyiv’s “legions of foreign fighters.” To the Russians, these are essentially NATO soldiers who are not wearing their NATO uniforms, because they want to live up to the impression that the war is only between Ukranians and Russians.
Another victim of Putin’s greed and hubris…. all destruction, injuries, and deaths in this war are his fault.
Rest in paradise hero ❤
Condolences to his family and colleagues. Praying for his family 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Thanks for your service Sir❤🙏🙏🙏
So first we have China spying on us than Russia kills Somone than we have UFO 🛸 sightings all over the world and no one absolutely no one is gonna comment because it would mean world war 3???? I mean that is absolute hypocrisy
Stupid is as stupid does. Die outside your game no repawns. He’s not a hero he literally chose to go somewhere that has chosen to fight. Literally didn’t see him running for Hispanics killing Hispanics or asians killing Asians ir Africans killing Africans. Only when it’s white killing whites did he actually care .. lmao gotta love white people.. 🤣 🤣 🤣
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but why the best of the best are living first or dying so young , but the ignorant and stupid one have long and useless life?
that’s exactly where I have to go to look for a quality husband. Im sick to waste my time on Tinder where you can meet only sissy boys and perverts. I have to pay more attention for military guys and volunteers.
in the arms of an angel…
Heartbreaking so young so kind it is unfortunate .
R.i.p. beautiful kind hearted hero.
CIA
US citizens have no proper business being in Ukraine. The United States has no proper reason to intervene in Ukraine. NATO has no proper reason to intervene in Ukraine. If it were not for meddling westerners, this war would have ended in a few weeks, at most.
That isnt fare
R.I.P Pete Amen🕊😢condolences to his wife,family and friends
That’s a real hero
I hope Vladimir Putin pays for all the lives lost because of his selfish war. Rest in peace to Pete Reed, an incredibly selfless man.
People shouldn’t be surprised if he got killed he shouldn’t even been over there
Very sad.. All the best for the family. Sorry for your pain.
R.I.P brave and big heart man, From mexico.
God bless you and your family. Thank you so much for your sacrifice
My prayers for the Family. We raise our children to be independent and courageous. Hoping they might change the world. Your sons strength is inspiring and that can change the world. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦♥
Satan is questioning him right now about the poor life decisions that he recently made….
Rest in Peace Hero
Saw him doing crazy work against ISIS
We need more like him. He was a 1 in a million and a good role model. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. I would also like to thank all of the other heroes out there doing the same thing.
For the life of me I can’t understand a woman saying he loved me yet took his self to Ukraine……it wasn’t his fight or business to be in Ukraine
Well the selfish and cowardly will never understand.
The US fought ISIS in Iraq and allied with them in Syria. Pete Reed was a fool in associating himself with the US’s corporate wars as I am for leaving a comment on corporate media.
Well, it wasn’t his war to fight. He walked right into it.
May he rest in eternal peace. A true American hero.
What do you expect???? Go go Russia!
Saving globalist nazi’s? He got what he deserved.