Army Sgt. Gene A. Hawkins
24, of Orlando, Fla.
assigned to the 14th Engineer Battalion, 555th Combat Support Brigade (Maneuver Enhancement), Fort Lewis, Wash.; died Oct. 12 from injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his RG-31 Mine Protected Vehicle in Mosul, Iraq.
Tags: tampa[Grandmother] Gwendolyn Taliver talked to her grandson about throwing a party when he came home from Iraq… He didn’t want one. “He said, `No, I want to stay in my room and watch cartoons,’” Taliver said. “If he wasn’t in his room, he was with one of his friends. He was not one to be in the street, unless he was out there playing basketball.”
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Singing in the rain,
Let grateful memories
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