Mom mourns second tragic hero from NY

One of the six US service members killed in an Afghanistan suicide bombing was a Long Island native whose mother told The Post she had a terrible feeling he wouldn’t return home.

“This time, for the first two weeks he was gone, I was crying every day,” Diana Bonacasa said of her 31yearold son, Louis (inset), who died on his fourth tour in the Middle East. “I felt he wasn’t coming back. I don’t know why.

“Then this man on a bike . . . This suicider. This horrible man who is burning in hell right now . . .” she said before trailing off.

Louis, who was stationed at Stewart Air National Guard Base in New Windsor, was pals and roommates with another New York airman who died during the attack, NYPD Detective Joseph Lemm.

Diana last spoke on the phone with her son, who was born in Patchogue, on Sunday at her Manorville home.

“He was happy,” she said. “He told me he got a package from my sisterinlaw and to thank Aunt Annie. He said he was going to send her a flag.”

Louis loved his job as an Air Force sergeant and had longed to become a member of the armed services since he was a teenager, she said.

“And being 17, I had to sign him up, so I said to join the Air Force because I figured the Air Force was less dangerous, not on the ground,” she explained.

“He was a wild thing. It was just in him.”

Louis left behind a “beautiful” wife he met when he was 18 and completing boot camp in the Philippines, Diana said.

They share a 5yearold daughter “who doesn’t understand what’s going on,” the mom added.

Louis’ body will arrive in Delaware tomorrow, she said, and he’ll be buried in Calverton, LI.

The death has been especially difficult for Louis’ father, whose brother was shot and killed at the age of 11.

“My husband’s brother was named Louis,” she said. “We named our son after him. My son called from boot camp and said, ‘ Dad, I want to get a tattoo.’ My husband said, ‘Why are you asking me? You’re a man and you’re serving our country.’ So our son got a tattoo of his uncle’s face on his arm and the words ‘Our father in Heaven.’ He was so proud of it.”

Diana is heartbroken, but she said she takes some solace in knowing her son died serving his country in a position he was proud of.

“He loved his country,” she said. “That’s what’s giving me peace: He died doing what he loved.”

Additional reporting by Danika Fears