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Family, friends remember Plymouth soldier Benjamin Sherman
When Benjamin Sherman returned to Plymouth South High School to visit former teachers and friends, he wore his Army paratrooper uniform.
“He spoke to kids in a class about how school was important,” Plymouth South Principal Patricia Connors said Wednesday. “He was always looking to give back.”
Connors said she wasn’t surprised to learn that the 21-year-old father-to-be had died trying to save another soldier when he jumped into a river in Afghanistan.
“I can see him going above and beyond,” she said.
The body of Sherman, a 2006 Plymouth South graduate, was found Tuesday, according to his family. Authorities are still looking for the remains of the other Army paratrooper, who has yet to be identified. The soldiers had been missing for about a week.
The two, who were members of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, had disappeared in Badghis province, a remote area that borders Turkmenistan. Local police said the men tried to recover supplies when the river swept them away.
Pink Slip: Steve Burton, a man in someone else's uniform (So why ...
But now I'm beginning to piece things together and figure out that the operative words may be "uniform" and "military." Or so it seems, if you're following the case of Steve Burton, who went to his 20th high school reunion sporting a Marine uniform, bedazzled by a number of medals, including the Navy Cross. (Source: CNN .)
Trouble is, Burton is not now and never has been a Marine, let alone a decorated Marine, and he's now charged with:
Semper fee, fie, fo, fum. Someone smells the blood of a Palm Springs bank officer, not a mega-decorated jar-head.
That someone was Navy Commander Colleen Salonga.
She was also at the reunion - apparently in mufti - when see spied Burton's chest o' medals and, knowing the rarity with which the Navy Cross is awarded, grew suspicious.
Apparently, Salonga didn't do what a kinder, gentler classmate might have done - ask a probing question or two, and then whispered in Burton's ear that if those really weren't his medals, he needed to take them off. Or write it off as a bad joke Halloween costume - the reunion was held on October 31st of last year. No, Salonga asked the unwitting Burton to pose with her for a picture. Which she put down her swagger stick long enough to send to the FBI.
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