PINELLAS COUNTY KIA MEMORIAL GARDENS
One of our projects is the construction of memorial gardens throughout Pinellas County to honor our local fallen heroes. To date, there is a total of 14 Killed In Action (KIA) soldiers from Pinellas County*. CDF will make every effort to ensure each garden location will be in close proximity to the soldier(s) family residence in order to provide them a tranquil environment to honor and remember their hero.
*Pinellas County, Floridians killed in the War on Terror
One of our projects is the construction of memorial gardens throughout Pinellas County to honor our local fallen heroes. To date, there is a total of 14 Killed In Action (KIA) soldiers from Pinellas County*. CDF will make every effort to ensure each garden location will be in close proximity to the soldier(s) family residence in order to provide them a tranquil environment to honor and remember their hero.
*Pinellas County, Floridians killed in the War on Terror
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SPC Brittany B. Gordon
The first Killed-In-Action (KIA) Memorial Garden is to honor our fallen heroes like local Brittany B. Gordon, who was born on 2 October 1988, the daughter of Cedric and Brenda Gordon. At the time of her death, her father, Cedric, was serving as the Assistant Police Chief of the St. Petersburg (Florida) Police Department. Brittany was a 2006 graduate of St. Petersburg High School in St. Petersburg, FL. She then attended the University of Florida before deciding to enter the military.
SPC Gordon entered the Army in January 2010 and reported to Fort Jackson, SC, for Army Basic Training and then to Fort Huachuca, AZ, for Advanced Individual Training in MOS 35F (Intelligence Analyst). She arrived at Joint Base Lewis-McCord (JBLM), WA, in August 2010 and was assigned to the 572nd Military Intelligence Company, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. She deployed to Afghanistan with her brigade in April 2012 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. It was her first deployment.
On 13 October 2012, SPC Gordon died after sustaining wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked her unit with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Military awards include the Army Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and Afghanistan Campaign Medal with Campaign Star, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, and NATO Medal.
Specialist Brittany B. Gordon died on 13 October 2012 in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
She is buried at Sunset Memory Gardens in Tampa, FL.
**Thank you all who attended the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony held on Saturday, January 27, 2018 at Dell Holmes Park in St. Petersburg , FL.
We invited the community along with everyone who had and continues to support our mission to join us on that momentous day in showing their respects by honoring fallen heroes like SPC Gordon who gave their all for our freedom.
SPC Gordon entered the Army in January 2010 and reported to Fort Jackson, SC, for Army Basic Training and then to Fort Huachuca, AZ, for Advanced Individual Training in MOS 35F (Intelligence Analyst). She arrived at Joint Base Lewis-McCord (JBLM), WA, in August 2010 and was assigned to the 572nd Military Intelligence Company, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. She deployed to Afghanistan with her brigade in April 2012 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. It was her first deployment.
On 13 October 2012, SPC Gordon died after sustaining wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked her unit with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Military awards include the Army Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and Afghanistan Campaign Medal with Campaign Star, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, and NATO Medal.
Specialist Brittany B. Gordon died on 13 October 2012 in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
She is buried at Sunset Memory Gardens in Tampa, FL.
**Thank you all who attended the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony held on Saturday, January 27, 2018 at Dell Holmes Park in St. Petersburg , FL.
We invited the community along with everyone who had and continues to support our mission to join us on that momentous day in showing their respects by honoring fallen heroes like SPC Gordon who gave their all for our freedom.
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