Devon D. Jones
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Age: 19
From: San Diego
Assigned to 41st Field Artillery Regiment, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Incident: Army Pvt. 2 Devon D. Jones was killed in a vehicle accident in Iraq.
Died: April 04, 2003
Pvt. Devon Jones wanted to be an English teacher.
As a senior at San Diego’s Lincoln High School, he had been a teaching intern at a nearby elementary school.
After graduating nine months ago, he enlisted as a means to pay for a college education.
Jones and two other soldiers out of Fort Stewart, Ga., were in a Humvee, carrying munitions and supplies to front-line forces in Baghdad, when they plunged into a ravine April 4 while swerving to avoid mortars and military fire, according to relatives briefed by the military. All three men died.
“He was just a real gentleman,” principal Wendell Bass said. “He was a young man that was quiet but at the same time was well liked by everyone.”
The road for Jones wasn’t easy.
His mother was troubled, and he moved from one group home to another. His grandmother took Jones and two brothers to live with her in Memphis for seven years, until her death, according to The San Diego Union...