This Weeks Soldier Was Suggested By SJ Reidhead
20 years old from Bel Air, Maryland
Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force
February 7, 2007
Cpl. Jennifer Parcell was petite, but one learned quickly that underestimating her was foolish.
"She was an absolute firecracker," Master Sgt. Jerry Widner said. "Just a go-getting machine."
Her relentless can-do attitude led her to volunteer for Iraq. And then to volunteer for the Lioness Program, which provides female Marines for searches of Iraqi women to respect Muslim cultural mores.
Parcell was killed Feb. 7 in Anbar province when a woman she was searching blew herself up with a suicide vest. Parcell had started doing the searches a week before and was three weeks from going home.
You can read the rest of Cpl. Jennifer Parcell's story here.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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1 comments:
That is so sad. Almost going home and a terrible disaster happens. I always pray for these soldiers. My daughter is being deployed there soon. She is a Sgt. with the 804th Signal Corps out of Hawai'i. She's my baby and I pray for her to be safe.
God bless the parents of this girl who gave her life for this country. It is so sad to see a life taken from someone so young.
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