New Yorker Willy Joseph Cancel, 22, left behind his wife Brittany, 22, who is also a veteran Marine, and their seven-month-old son, Anthony, in March after taking a paid job in a private army. “to protect the innocent” contracting company in Ukraine, his father wrote on a GoFundMe page. On Tuesday, Cancel’s wife received “the worst call of her life” when she was informed that her husband had been killed in battle, the father said. “Your husband fought bravely, but unfortunately he did not succeed,” she said in a phone call. “Since that phone call on April 26, her life has completely collapsed and now she has to find a way to rebuild it together, to find a way to raise her son without his father or financial support,” the father wrote in the fundraiser. website, which has raised over $ 36,000 since early Saturday morning. Willy Joseph Cancel left behind his seven-month-old son and his 22-year-old wife Brittany after taking a paid job at a private military company. Willie “As a family, we try to support them as much as possible and be there for each other, but Brittany and Anthony will need more than we can offer.” The fundraiser hopes to raise enough money to support Cancel’s wife and son. “He will grow up without a father, a father who was brave and selfless and whose life was lost irrationally,” Cancel’s father wrote of his grandson. The wife’s life was completely ruined and now she has to find a way to rebuild it together, wrote Willy Joseph Cancels’s father on the GoFundMe page. GoFundMe The GoFundMe fundraiser hopes to raise enough money to support Cancel’s wife and son. Brittany Cancel / Facebook; Willie “While he will grow up knowing that his father died as a hero, we know this will not be easy. “No parent should ever bury their child and no child should grow up without a parent.” Cancel, who hails from Orange County and served as a volunteer firefighter in Walden, flew to Poland on March 12 and arrived in Ukraine the next day to fight with men from “all different countries,” said Rebecca’s mother. Cabrera on CNN on Friday. The circumstances of Cancel’s death were unclear and his body was not retrieved immediately, Cabrera said. Willy Joseph Cancel flew to Poland on March 12 and arrived in Ukraine the next day to fight with men from all over the country, his mother said. Brittany Cancel / Facebook. Willie Cancel previously served as a Marine rifle at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, the Marine Corps said Friday. He was not deployed in the war zone and was acquitted of misconduct after violating a lawful general order, said Marine Corps spokesman Major Jim Stenger.
