
LAWTON, Okla. — The three words Marine Cpl. Lamont Noel Wilson would use in his letters from the frontlines of the Iraq war summed up his feelings about his country: “Sleep Well, America.”
“That was his heart,” Debra Jordan, a fellow church member, said during Wilson’s funeral at Saint John’s Missionary Baptist Church in Lawton on Thursday.
“Sleep well, America. He believed in what he was doing, and he felt like he wanted to do what he could do so we could live in peace, comfort and happiness in the United States of America.”
Wilson, who joined the Marine Corps in June 2003, died Sept. 6 in combat in Fallujah, Iraq. He was buried at the Fort Sill National Cemetery...