Flags will fly at half-staff across Colorado on Friday and Saturday to honor a 26-year-old Army sergeant who was killed in the War with Iran. Gov. Jared Polis announced on Thurday that flags will be lowered to honor Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington’s “life and service.”
Pennington was assigned to the 1st Space Battalion at Fort Carson in Colorado.
Pennington was the seventh member of the American armed forces who was killed in the war. His death came a week after he was hurt in an attack on a base in Saudi Arabia. That took place at Prince Sultan Air Base on March 1.
So far, 13 American service members have been killed in the War with Iran…