A sad story about a true hero this week.
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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brett
That is very much a sad tragedy. However, its up to the living to work very hard to provide meaning to the sacrifices of those that have passed before us, and that goes double when their sacrifices are given so bravely.
It’s also very important for Americans to understand that women in the military play a vital role. I served with some of the first women to serve in combat units during the first Persian Gulf War.
War does not discriminate against creed, sex, religion or politics, it takes a lot of hard work, and bravery just to keep putting one foot in front of the other let alone carry out a mission in a War Zone.
Mar 9th, 2007
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