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Carletta S. Davis

    
Friday, November 09 2007 @ 11:46 AM MST
Contributed by: River97
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Anchorage Daily News -- Staff Sgt. Carletta Davis didn't get to give her husband and three sons a hug before she went off to war nine weeks ago. The boys and their dad got to Fort Drum, N.Y., one day after she was deployed.

Now they're on their way to Alaska for Davis' funeral.

Davis, 34, who grew up in Anchorage, was one of two Alaskans killed Monday when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Tal Al-Dahab, Iraq.

Sgt. Derek Stenroos, 24, of North Pole, was also killed in the attack, along with two other soldiers with Fort Drum's 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division: Pfc. Adam Muller of Underhill, Vt., and Staff Sgt. John Linde of New York City.

Stenroos, a military policeman who planned to become an Alaska State Trooper when his military commitment was over, was in Iraq for the second time in about three years. Davis, a medic, was there for the third time in less than five years.



The 1st Brigade left Fort Drum for Kirkuk, Iraq, on Sept. 6 -- the day before Davis' husband, Thomas, and their children, 14-year-old Treyton, 13-year-old Theodore and 8-year-old Tyrique, arrived. The family had driven to New York from Seattle, where Thomas Davis had just received his physician's assistant degree.

Carletta Davis, who graduated as Carletta Ward from East High School in 1991, joined the Army in 1994. She hoped to become a physician's assistant when her military career ended, her mother said in a telephone interview from her home in Fairbanks.

As a flight medic, Davis spent much of her adult life in harm's way. Besides the deployments to Iraq, she served six months in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1996-97 and a year in South Korea in 2002.

"It was hard, but she said 'Hey, I've gotta do it,' " said her mother, Lavada Napier. "She didn't never worry. She just didn't like the fact she was going for a third time."

Davis seemed to sense something might go wrong this time, Napier said. Before she deployed, "she visited people she didn't normally visit, I think because she knew something," Napier said.

Napier and her daughter spent six weeks together after Davis returned from her second Iraq tour in 2004-05.

"I said, 'Tell me how that was.' She says, 'Mama, the children over there are like grown people. They're doing things that adults would be doing. When one of them gets injured, they don't even show pain on their face. They just hold the limb that has been severed.'

"She says it's like the Twilight Zone. It's like looking at a movie. Your emotions are so paralyzed once you see so much death. You just try to rescue who you can in the equipment you are in. She said that was the most hurtful thing -- so many people needing help."

Martha Trishell, Davis' aunt in Anchorage, said her niece told her she found joy in being able to help injured and wounded troops.
 
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Carletta S. Davis
Authored by: mary e rush on Sunday, November 11 2007 @ 09:32 AM MST
Dear Family of Carletta,
I am so very sorry for your Carletta. She died a hero. She died saving lives. No words can ever heal your loss and pain. I can never know the depths of your sorrow. I can't imagine missing your wife by one day then driving so far to her memorial.I am sorry I am praying for you now. Mary
Carletta S. Davis
Authored by: anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2007 @ 08:54 PM MST
Carletta,
I would like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for our Country-not just in OIF, but also for your service in Bosnia as well. And to your family and loved ones, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

"To The Top!"
Carletta S. Davis
Authored by: anonymous on Wednesday, December 05 2007 @ 05:03 PM MST
Thank you from the Family of Carletta S. Davis.

We pray for those of you that knew Carletta and had the opportunity to build a true relationship with her. For you will meet her in the clouds when that day come. I thank you for your concern and if you truely appreicate what Carletta and more than 3853 people have given their life for just in this war. Do me a favor, Help just one other person needing help in making the Godly principles applicable in their daily life. Sincerely Carletta's Mom Alaska
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