The Waycross community came together to celebrate the birthday of Sgt. Kennedy Sanders and honored her service.
Six months have gone by since Sanders’ family lost her while she was on deployment in Israel.Now, instead of celebrating what would have been her 25th birthday with her, they held a memorial dinner and honored her service.
“It’s been very hard for our family,” Oneida Oliver Sanders, Sgt. Kennedy Sanders’ mother said. “We’re still reaching a lot of our first, this is our first birthday, you know, not being here. It’s kind of hard for us, but the community is making it better.”“We want to just be able to use the funds we’re using this foundation to benefit some of the people in the community.
“The night before the incident, unfortunately, we were up late, making keychains for the unit. And you might see a little bit earlier than normal, where she was just talking about life, different things that we wanted to do and Sanders expressed that she wanted to go AGR and I told her you don’t have anything stopping you, go do it,” Gurley said.“It’s been bad,” Gurley said. “I have some days where, you know, I have a big support, where they do help, keeping me in a good place.
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