| Page 3 of 5 < > |
U.S. Deaths in Iraq Mark Increased Presence
|
TOOLBOX
   Resize
COMMENT
 Discussion Policy
 CLOSE
Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site. Please review the full rules governing commentaries and discussions. You are fully responsible for the content that you post.
Who's Blogging  |
Just days before she was killed, "Tee" had been home for a two-week break. She had enjoyed a big family cookout, skated at her favorite roller rink, prayed at her Baltimore church, joined her mom for shopping and her aunt for a movie.
Her older brother was a Marine, and her father was a Baltimore police detective, and it seemed natural, her mother said, that Green would wear a uniform, too. Although she had done a semester at Norfolk State, and then Morgan State, she gave up college for the Army. The military, she had decided, would be her career.
"Anyone who knew her would tell you that was her calling," her mother said. "It was just something that was in her. It was part of her like her right arm."
Sgt. Amanda Pinson
Two photos of Amanda Pinson appear on the screen; she wears camouflage in one and a T-shirt that says "Angel" in the other. Pinson was killed by a mortar round outside a building on her post in Tikrit.
On that day in March, she was walking toward her fiance, a fellow soldier, to join him for lunch. She was wearing an engagement ring he had given her in Iraq.
Pinson was 21, a cryptologist from the St. Louis area who had been inspired by the Sept. 11 attacks to join the military. She worked in the intelligence unit for the Army's elite 101st Airborne.
"She was so strong," said her father, Tony Pinson. "She had so much heart, and she earned so much respect for her abilities. She was very hard-driven, working around the clock. You couldn't tell her she couldn't do something. She would prove you wrong."
On the day she was killed, her fiance was injured, but "she absorbed most of the impact," her father said. He said he thought that would have been her wish. Her fiance had two children from a previous marriage.
She was just starting out.
1st Lt. Ashley Henderson Huff
It is her wedding day in this museum photograph, and Ashley Huff wears a jeweled tiara, her blue eyes looking out happily, all future and promise.
Near the photo, the display mentions Huff's love for the University of Georgia, where she graduated. The die-hard Bulldogs fan was a sorority girl and an ROTC standout.
Huff was killed in September by a suicide bomber in Mosul. She was 23.
