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GREGORY V. PENNINGTON

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Birth: Jan. 4, 1968, USA Death: Jun. 21, 2004 Baghdad, Iraq Staff Sgt. Gregory V. Pennington of Glade Spring, Virginia was a member of Special Forces, and becasue of that he couldn't tell his family much about his experiences in Iraq. However he still made sure to call home on Father's Day, the day before he died. He was buried in the Azen Baptist Church Cemetery, not far from the house in the shadow of the mountains where he grew up. He helped evacuate the camp before being killed by a mortar blast and died on the way to a military hospital. They were asleep, and Greg heard them start firing. He hurried and woke everybody up and got all the other guys out. He was the last one to go out. Greg joined the Army upon graduation from Holston High School in Damascus in 1986. He graduated one day and went in the next.
  • Service/branch: Army

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