Based: Ft. Campbell, Ky.
426th Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: August 2, 2008
Baiji, Iraq
Single
Gender: Female
Hometown: American Canyon
High School: Vintage High (Napa)
Burial: Tulocay Cemetery, Napa, Calif.
Cole, who lived in the Napa County community of American Canyon, enlisted last year after her mother sold the Vallejo, Calif., flower shop where Cole had worked for more than a decade.
"She thought this would be a good time to serve her country," her mother said. "It was a surprise to me."
Cole, a motor transport operator, was sent to Iraq in March. She found Iraqis welcoming, telling her family "they really appreciate what the Americans are doing over there," her mother said. "What we hear on the news is not necessarily true.
In addition to her mother, Candace Gholson, she is survived by brothers James and Jeffrey Cole.Read more about Army Pfc. Jennifer L. Cole here and here.
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