Kimberly Grossman, the mother of Spec. Harley Reynolds, grieves at her late son's memorial service on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, at U.S. Army Garrison Vicenza. Reynolds, a 26-year-old military police officer with the 464th Military Police Platoon, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, was killed Sept. 6 when the motorcycle he was riding hit the back end of a truck and he was subsequently hit by a car. (Nancy Montgomery/Stars and Stripes)
Kimberly Grossman, the mother of Spec. Harley Reynolds, grieves at her late son's memorial service on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, at U.S. Army Garrison Vicenza. Reynolds, a 26-year-old military police officer with the 464th Military Police Platoon, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, was killed Sept. 6 when the motorcycle he was riding hit the back end of a truck and he was subsequently hit by a car. (Nancy Montgomery/Stars and Stripes)
Spc. Harley Reynolds in a photograph shown at his memorial service on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, at U.S. Army Garrison Vicenza. Reynolds, a military police officer who enlisted in 2008, died Sept. 6 after his motorcycle hit a truck. (Nancy Montgomery/Stars and Stripes)
Spc. Harley Reynolds, who was memorialised on Friday, Sept. 12, 2014, at U.S. Army Garrison Vicenza following his Sept. 6 death in a motorcycle crash, in a photo with his daughters Maycee Lynne and Malaynnah Luella. (Nancy Montgomery/Stars and Stripes)
VICENZA, Italy — Hundreds of people paid tribute on Friday to Spc. Harley Reynolds, known, his friends said, for competence, kindness, a goofy grin and a love of Mountain Dew, even when warm.
“It was a privilege every day having this person in my life,” said Spc. Bryant Hall at a memorial service on Caserme Ederle.
Reynolds enjoyed the simple things, Hall said. “He was always satisfied with the company of friends and a lukewarm Mountain Dew.”
The 26-year-old military police officer was killed Sept. 6 when his motorcycle collided with the back of a truck and he was subsequently hit by a car. He was married and the father of two girls.
Reynolds enlisted in 2008, and was assigned to Vicenza’s 464th Military Police Platoon, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Briagade, in April 2013.
He had deployed to Haiti in 2010 as part of the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, N.C.
The service drew military police from Germany as well as members of Reynold’s family from Florida. It included a reading of the 23rd Psalm and a rendition of Amazing Grace by a sole bagpiper.
