West Point buries first cadet from ‘Class of 9/11’
WEST POINT, N.Y. - The first member of West Point's "Class of 9/11" to die in combat was buried at the military academy Tuesday, two weeks after she was killed by a bomb at the head of a convoy in Iraq.
2nd Lt. Emily Perez, 23, was leading a platoon when a roadside bomb exploded Sept. 12 south of Baghdad. She was the first female West Point graduate to die in Iraq and the highest-ranking black and Hispanic woman cadet in the school's history.
posted by Trae at 10/06/2006 08:50:00 PM
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Since when is driving a vehicle, on patrol COMBAT ?, im very saddened by her death, but why is it that the media keeps glorifying everything
let's see, being blown up by a roadside bomb....i'd call that combat. One doesn't have to be in an arm to arm combat for it to be combat. I don't see how this is glorifying....
Anytime you're on patrol in a combat area (Iraq, duh.) you're "in combat". Her life and death certainly seems worthy of some glorifying to me. Thank you, Lt. Perez. Sincere condolences to her family.
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