Pamela G. Osbourne
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Age: 38
From: Hollywood, Fla.
Assigned to Division Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Sgt. Pamela G. Osbourne was killed Oct. 11 when two rockets hit her camp in Baghdad. Also
Died: October 11, 2004
South Florida soldier killed in Iraq
Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Sgt. Pamela G. Osbourne called home to Texas from her supply depot in Baghdad every morning, between five and six o’clock.
On Sunday, when the phone didn’t ring, Rohan Osbourne called out for his wife.
“Pam! Pam! Pam!”
He was still asleep. Two of his children woke him to ask him what was wrong. Osbourne didn’t remember a thing.
On Monday morning, when an Army team pulled up outside his home at Fort Hood, Texas, Osbourne knew the news would be bad. His wife, 38, had been killed the day before when rockets hit the camp where she was stationed with the 1st Cavalry Division.
A native of Jamaica, the slain soldier came to Florida when she was 14, her husband said. She lived in Miami, then in nearby Hollywood, and she nourished two dreams: One was to become a citizen of the United States, the other was to serve in the...