You've probably noticed an up tick in the frequency of this theme of late, and it's intentional. As October has become the deadliest month in this little undeclared "war" on terrorism, I am responding with more posts. I found this particular one particularly poignant. After two weeks of searching, I could only come up one news article on this young man. It was in the Hampton Daily News (his hometown paper) and it basically said nothing. It was repeated in other places, the Baltimore Sun, and Georgia TV station, but nothing new was added to the original to illuminate and celebrate a life sacrificed for you and me.
Airman 1st Class Leebenard E. Chavis, 21, of Hampton, Va.; assigned to the 824th Security Forces Squadron, Moody Air Force Base, Ga.; killed Oct. 14 while performing duties as a turret gunner with the Iraqi police in the vicinity of Baghdad.
“Hampton Airman Killed In Iraq”
Airman 1st Class Leebenard E. Chavis, a 21-year-old airman from Hampton, was killed Saturday in Iraq, the Defense Department announced today.
He was assigned to the Georgia-based 824th Security Squadron and was working as a turret gunner with the Iraqi police in Baghdad.
Chavis was a 2003 graduate of Phoebus High School, according to Hampton school division spokeswoman Ann Stephens.
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