Mar 18, 2008
Gulfport native, husband, killed in Iraq
“I have to take it day by day. I have the Lord on my side.”
Candice Brown won't forget the silly faces her husband made to make her laugh, the 25 Christmas letters he sent from Iraq to first-graders at her school, the constant reminders through phone calls and e-mails that he loved her, that she was his Cinderella.
'There is a part in my heart that is gone because that part of my heart... was him,' the 27-year-old said. 'The biggest part of it is gone because he's not here.'
Sgt. Lerando Brown, a Gulfport native, was killed in Balad, Iraq, on Friday, the National Guard solider succumbing to a gunshot wound to his chest. The 27-year-old was with the 288th Sapper Co., based in Houston, Miss., and his widow knows no other details about his death or whether he was on a mission. Read more
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