War leaves mom emotionally wounded DAILY 2 STAR Edition

Reared in a family where the men went to the military, [Kimberly Sheets] can't rest easy now, even as [Derrick Sharpe] will be safely on U.S. soil. Her two other sons, Damian, 17, and Dalton, 15, plan to join the Marines as well. Damian leaves in June. She said Sharpe's ordeal hasn't...

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Published inCitizens' voice (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.)
Main Author Kalinowski, Robert
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Wilkes-Barre, Pa The Citizens' Voice 03.03.2007
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Sharpe, Derrick
Sheets, Kimberly
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Summary:Reared in a family where the men went to the military, [Kimberly Sheets] can't rest easy now, even as [Derrick Sharpe] will be safely on U.S. soil. Her two other sons, Damian, 17, and Dalton, 15, plan to join the Marines as well. Damian leaves in June. She said Sharpe's ordeal hasn't negatively affected their decisions. Hours after the call, Sheets left for Germany to visit her son in a U.S. military hospital. She stayed by his bedside 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. each day. Sharpe was in a coma. Shrapnel had torn through his abdomen. A chunk of his right leg was missing. Her son was on the brink of death and infections spread through Sharpe's body. Doctors performed daily surgeries to try to save his life. Then, one day physicians made a frantic call to Sheets, telling her to come to the operating room immediately.
ISSN:1070-8626