Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:17:46 PM
"Ross Andrew McGinnis, of Knox, Pennsylvania, was born on June 14, 1987, to Tom and Romayne McGinnis. Recognizing that he was not interested in attending college, Ross enlisted in the U.S. Army's Delayed Entry Program on his seventeenth birthday, June 14, 2004. He finished high school, graduating in 2005, and then entered basic training. He was nineteen when he died a hero's death in Iraq on December 4, 2006."
Specialist Ross Andrew McGinnis
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A Love Greater Than Life Itself
A hero's story
by Doug Patton
The average age of the American servicemen who fought to liberate Europe from Fascism and the Pacific from Japanese Imperialism was nineteen.
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