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Kelly Grew From the little girl who did not want to leave her mother's side and go to prek to the independent woman who
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struck out on her own joined the army and became a combat medic she loved the feeling of her mom's soft pajamas and
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she became the soldier who wore Comet boots and carried an M16 Kelly Bordeaux was an amazing young
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woman who brought the entire community of fville and Beyond together and she gave us all a special kind of hope hope
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for her return home hope hope that her family could find peace amidst the unknowing and hope that we could all
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live life just as she did one day I had the headquarters plon approach me saying that special SPO
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would be moving to headquarters I completely ignored her and marched straight to my Commander's
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office I said sir I don't mean to be disrespectful but special spau is not moving to
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headquarters the whole time I was voicing my opinion Captain neighbors had this perplexed look on his face and said
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Lieutenant Davis calm down I was not tracking her moving anywhere she remains in your
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platoon I laugh at myself for looking silly in front of my commander later on Kelly approached me
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and said ma'am am I really am I really moving to headquarters I looked at her and said no and even if you want to I'm
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not letting you go she just smiled as I Walk Away Kelly is the type of soldier that a
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leader wants to maintain in their formation the kind that it's so okay to look Grazy in front of your boss
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fighting for and I'm humbled that I was that leader for her before I could introduce myself she
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came up to me with her thousand wat smile and introduced herself from that moment on we became
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family it was freezing in North Carolina way too cold for us Florida girls our winter clothes consisted of a hoodie and
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foot flops everyone would look at us weird and we just agreed it was a Florida thing her goal was to be an officer what
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a crazy idea I know I tried to convince her not to go to the dark side she just laughed she would have made amazing
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officer and I would have gladly saluted her our last memory together was that Friday I couldn't run due to severe
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blisters that I received on my I got on my feet I saw Kelly later that day and she came up to me saying it was okay
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because she had them on to do a blister she said we're twins she said we had baby feet from the
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foot flops we wor growing up heaven received the most beautiful angel I can't wait to meet her again but
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every day I tell her to sa me a seat on the beaches of heaven so we can be together
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again she was a soldier a medic a panther and best of all she was my friend