
Reynold Armand didn’t want to wait until he turned 18 to join the Marines. He persuaded his adoptive mother to sign papers allowing him to sign up a year early.
Soon after Armand graduated from the East Irondequoit district’s Eastridge High School in 2004, he started a military career that took him to Virginia, California and North Carolina. In January, he was sent to Iraq.
On Tuesday night, family members were notified by military personnel that Armand, 21, had died.
Friends and relatives gathered Wednesday on the porch of the Rochester home of Armand’s parents to mourn a young man they described as shy and...