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“This is what they sent us,” Oneida Sanders said, kneeling beside a heavy wooden chest in her living room. “These are Kennedy’s things.”
Sgt. Kennedy Sanders’s belongings were shipped home to her parents after she was killed: Dog tags, identification cards, Polaroids of her family. Gold jewelry and a quarter that appeared to be stained with blood.
The items offered a glimpse into the person, soldier and daughter that Kennedy was and who she had hoped to become.
Kennedy was serving on a U.S. military outpost in Jordan in January when an Iran-backed...
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