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Morgan D Kennon
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Name: Army Staff Sgt. Morgan D. Kennon
Age: 23
From: Memphis, Tenn.
Assigned to 3rd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), based in Fort Campbell, Ky.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Morgan D. Kennon was killed Nov. 7 in a rocket-propelled grenade attack while he was guarding a bank in downtown Mosul, Iraq.
Died: November 07, 2003
Soldier died before fulfilling dream of becoming lawyer
Associated Press
Age: 23
From: Memphis, Tenn.
Assigned to 3rd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), based in Fort Campbell, Ky.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Morgan D. Kennon was killed Nov. 7 in a rocket-propelled grenade attack while he was guarding a bank in downtown Mosul, Iraq.
Died: November 07, 2003
Soldier died before fulfilling dream of becoming lawyer
Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Morgan D. Kennon joined the Army immediately after high school to earn money for college. He hoped one day to become a lawyer.
That dream was lost when Kennon, 23, a staff sergeant with the 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, died in an attack on an Army convoy guarding a bank in Mosul, Iraq. He was apparently the first Memphis resident killed in the war.
“He was a beautiful kid,” Kennon’s father, Morgan Kennon, said of his tall, slender and studious namesake.
“He was a serious-minded youngster who was devoted to fulfilling his mother’s wishes,” his father said. “If his mother needed anything, instead of being out in a...
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3rd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), based in Fort Campbell, Ky.
Incident
Army Staff Sgt. Morgan D. Kennon was killed Nov. 7 in a rocket-propelled grenade attack while he was guarding a bank in downtown Mosul, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Morgan D Kennon
2013-03-04
it was not a bank we were guarding we were not even at the bank it was at an OP and we got ambushed when we pulled up to swap out with anothr team, they can say what they want but i was there and i know ,i miss him and hope his family is doing well also that day sgt finnn was wounded ans well as sgt yokum lost a hand i still habe the watch lol , aand sgt calhoun lost both of his legs ,crazy day other were injured IE sgt ecohawk geting run over by a humve and so on
Morgan D Kennon
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.