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SSgt. Renee A. Deville
44 years old from Webster New York
401st Civil Affairs Battalion
September 1, 2008

SSGT Renee A. Deville was an Army Reservist who deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom with the 401st Civil Affairs Battalion from Webster, N.Y. She arrived at Walter Reed August 10, 2006, after being injured in a mortar attack.

While at Walter Reed, Deville was assigned to Chosen Battery, Warrior Transition Brigade, and was among three graduates of the Army’s first Basic Noncommissioned Officers Course Stand Alone Common Core offered to Warriors in Transition.

Deville, who successfully completed every aspect of the course from a wheelchair, was lauded by SGT Major of the Army Kenneth O. Preston as exemplifying the Army’s ‘Warrior Ethos’, at the graduation ceremony for the course on March 28, 2008.

Deville was also the impetus for a new playground being built behind the Mologne House at Walter Reed in 2007.

An October 2007 Washington Post article about the opening of the playground says that SSGT Deville’s mention of her children’s limited recreational options to Col. Bruce Haselden, the garrison commander, helped set in motion the playground project.

Staff Sgt. Renee Antoinette Deville died September 1, 2008 in her room at the Mologne House at Walter Reed. She was 44.

She is survived by her husband and 4 children, her mother, a brother, and two sisters.

SSGT Deville was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery on September 19, 2008.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Tags: Iraq, US-military, War on Terror

Nothing new to report…………………

I see the infectious disease doc on Monday he wants me on the evil vancomycin for at least a month, possibly six weeks before the surgery, so the infection is more under control.

SirWoody is pretty sure that chair is trying to eat him, he’s still mad at momma, wont cuddle, or nuthin…Tigger likes to ride on the back of the chair, he baps me on the head, like hey momma.. theirs a picture up on that wall.. look!!!!!!
Shoke, and SonnyBob just thinks it’s a fun place to sleep………..

Pet’s new electric ride

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Tigger checking out Pet’s new electric ride

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Tags: bengal-cats, cats, electric wheelchair

The infection flaired back up in my spine,
I am now wearing a central line
so I can have another 4-6 weeks of vancomycin IV at home.

Now the really bad news is that the infection is eating my spine away.

the docs are planning to go into my stomach and open it to the diaphragm, clean
all the infected bone they can get out,
then flip me over, open my spine, and remove that cage at L-4, and clean the back side of the spine out.
Their is no name for this surgery its so rare.

Survival rate is very low, but I am shamelessly asking for prayer and lots of it.
I don’t even know the questions to ask.

The boys have forgiven me for leaving them,, kind of..

tigger chillin while ignoring mama

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Tags: Bengals, cats, hospital