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WYNNEWOOD CHURCH OF CHRIST COLUMN
On February 27, 1991, at the height of Desert Storm, Ruth Dillow received a very sad message from the Pentagon. It stated her son, Pfc. Clayton Carpenter, had stepped on a mine in Kuwait and was dead.Ruth Dillow later wrote, “I can’t began to describe my grief and shock. It was almost more than I could bear. For three days I wept. For three days I expressed anger and loss. For three days people…