{"id":21774,"date":"2024-03-29T14:22:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=legrand-damon-glenn"},"modified":"2024-05-13T15:37:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:37:13","slug":"legrand-damon-glenn","status":"publish","type":"casualty","link":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/?casualty=legrand-damon-glenn","title":{"rendered":"LeGrand, Damon Glenn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: 6\/12\/2007<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rank<\/strong>: Corporal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Branch<\/strong>: U.S. Army<\/p>\n<p><strong>Operation<\/strong>: Operation Iraqi Freedom<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CPL-Damon-G-LeGrand.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25570\" style=\"width:565px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CPL-Damon-G-LeGrand.png 565w, https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CPL-Damon-G-LeGrand-237x300.png 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>CPL Damon LeGrand, a former Mormon missionary with fiery red hair and a passion for the outdoors, had accomplished several goals when his Army unit was dispatched to Iraq last year. The San Diego native had married, started a family and was serving as a military police officer, a launching point for a possible career in law enforcement. Assigned to help train Iraq\u2019s new police force, the specialist was killed June 12 when insurgents ambushed his convoy with anti-tank mines, rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire in Baqubah, northeast of Baghdad. He was 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI always told him, \u2018Don\u2019t be a sheep, be a leader.\u2019 And he took that to heart. He did that in the Army. He did that in his life,\u201d LeGrand\u2019s father, Donald, said from his home in Idaho Falls, Idaho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legrand grew up in San Diego\u2019s Clairemont neighborhood, graduated from Clairemont High School in 1995 and later served a two-year Mormon mission in Utah. He joined the Army in 2005 and was assigned to the 571<sup>st<\/sup> Military Police Company, 504<sup>th<\/sup> Military Police Battalion, 42<sup>nd<\/sup> Military Police Brigade at Ft. Lewis, Wash. While he was stationed in Iraq, LeGrand\u2019s wife, Ashley, gave birth to the couple\u2019s second daughter, Kelsie, now 7 months old. He never met her. The couple\u2019s older daughter, Moira, is 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LeGrand died about six weeks before he was to return to Idaho, where he, his family and his parents had moved a few years ago. He planned to go hunting and fishing with his father, to see Kelsie for the first time and to help his wife purchase a new home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his wife, daughters and father, LeGrand is survived by his mother, Glenna; a brother, Michael; and two sisters, Emily and Meghan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a pretty short life,\u201d his father said. \u201cBut I know he\u2019s in a better place and he\u2019s probably doing exactly what he was supposed to do. Only now he\u2019s doing it in heaven instead of [on] Earth, trying to help people. He was doing that over there: trying to help people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"casualty-operation":[100],"casualty-tag":[106],"class_list":["post-21774","casualty","type-casualty","status-publish","hentry","casualty-operation-operation-iraqi-freedom","casualty-tag-idaho-casualty"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/21774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/casualty"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/21774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25571,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/casualty\/21774\/revisions\/25571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"casualty-operation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-operation&post=21774"},{"taxonomy":"casualty-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idahofieldofheroes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcasualty-tag&post=21774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}