Family of sergeant killed in Jordan says she was following her dreams
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Kennedy's mother said her daughter enlisted in the army reserve five years ago as a nod to her dad's time serving as a marine.
One week ago today, three U.S. servicemembers were killed and dozens of others were injured in a deadly drone strike in Jordan, and this weekend, the families of those three servicemembers received the remains of their loved ones at a military base in Dover, Delaware.
Scripps News met the family of Specialist Kennedy Sanders in her hometown of Waycross, Georgia, on the day her family learned President Joe Biden had promoted her to sergeant.
"She prided herself with bringing the fanny pouch back in style. And she did not care what anybody thought about it!" Sanders mother, Oneida Oliver-Sanders, chuckled.
To Sgt. Kennedy Sanders' mom and aunt, she was still their "munchkin,” even at 24 years old.
“She was always so small. It's just like, all of a sudden, she had a growth spurt in high school, but all the way up until the end, she was always the smallest one on the team, but the most aggressive one on the team,” Oliver-Sanders reflected.
