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March 08, 2006
An Awesome Farewell
An update on Army SGT Rickey Jones, who was killed in action Feb. 22 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee during patrol operations in Hawijah, Iraq. You will remember reading about the "brave dissenters" who expressed their "support for our Troops" by vandalizing his family home and telephoning his parents.
SGT Rickey Jones graduated from Kokomo High School in the class of 2002 and I found this thread by someone I assume is a student at KHS on The Official Black Label Society, it was linked to my earlier post:
That is from my schools website.
Today we went out in the cold and rain to honor Kokomo's fallen soldier on US 31. There were about 50 of us all with flags and some with a big flag. When the procession started at about 11 am it didn't get over til about 11: 45 am. There were over 500 cars, 100 motorcycles(Patriot Guard Riders), and 10 to 20 military vehicles. Govenor Daniels was there along with the mayor of our town. I think I saw general, as well. Its was about 30 degrees, windy and rainy. Luckily the "Westboro Baptist Church" didn't show up, either. It was a good experiance and the people looked at us, and knew we cared.
Thank you Kokomo High School! Ya done good!
Posted by LindaSoG at March 8, 2006 07:26 PM
Comments
Linked back to ya on this - THANKS!
Posted by: chrys at March 8, 2006 11:07 PM
Thanks Chrys. Those kids make me proud!
Posted by: LindaSoG at March 9, 2006 07:00 AM
Thanks for the update, glad to hear it had a good outcome.
Posted by: Jack at March 10, 2006 12:00 AM
Coming here from Mudville Gazette ~
Thanks for posting this update!
And a great big Thank You to all the kids that stood out in the cold.
Posted by: yankeemom at March 10, 2006 12:42 PM