Posted on 03/03/2006 4:20:07 AM PST by Past Your Eyes
Woodstock – Jerry West was a bundle of nerves yesterday, waiting for more word of a grenade and car bomb attack in Iraq that seriously wounded his son-in-law, killed a Vermont soldier and injured another man from Rochester.
West will depart early this morning for Walter Reed Army Hospital in Bethesda, Md., where his daughter’s husband, Sgt. Jose Pequeno, is expected to arrive early this evening.
“As soon as I hear what’s happening, I’m getting on the road,” West said. Driving down with him will be his stepson, Jon McGoon, a lifelong friend of Pequeno’s and a member of the Woodstock Police Department.
Pequeno, the police chief in the North Country town of Sugar Hill for about four years, suffered a serious head injury, as well as broken bones and shrapnel wounds about three miles northwest of Ar Ramadi, near an Iraqi police station.
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Tell Jerry West that we're praying for his family. God bless our troops!
Very sad - prayers for all.
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