The three US service members killed in the weekend drone attack in Jordan were identified Monday as a decorated sergeant, a woman hoping to return home in June and a daughter whose mom called her an “angel.”
The tragic trio were all Georgia residents from the same military unit, officials said.
Sgt. William Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Spc. Brianna Moffatt, 23, of Savannah, and Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross were slain in the Saturday night attack by Iranian-backed militants on a small outpost near the Syrian border.
“All of these different things that she had plans for, you know, were just cut short in the blink of an eye,” Sanders’ weeping mother, Oneida, told the Washington Post . “I just feel like somebody like her, that’s so full of life, it’s just unfair that she’ll never get to realize those dreams that she had.”
Kennedy’s father, Shawn Sanders, a Marine veteran who affectionately called his daughter “Munchkin,” said the family was working on a plan to celebrate her return from the Middle East come June when they were informed of her death.