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Prince K. Teewia

    
Wednesday, January 04 2006 @ 07:47 AM MST
Contributed by: tomw
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Individuals USTuscaloosa News -- An immigrant who managed to avoid the gunbattles that tore apart his homeland of Liberia during his teen years, then joined the U.S. Army to afford a college education, was killed in Iraq, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Spc. Prince K. Teewia, 27, of Durham died Thursday in Baghdad, Iraq, when a bomb exploded near his Humvee, the Defense Department said.

He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. He was one of five soldiers from Fort Campbell killed since Thursday.

Family members urged him against volunteering for military service in wartime, but without the money to visit his wife after two years and without prospects for an education as he worked at a Durham convenience store, Teewia took a chance and lost his life.

"We told him not to do it. No one wants a child to join the Army" in wartime, said his mother, Rebecca Teewia of Newark, Del.

But war in Liberia had scattered the Teewia family for years at a time, and Prince was left to make his own choices on how to get ahead in the world, his mother said.

Rebecca Teewia was visiting family in the United States when civil war broke out in Liberia in 1989. She's wasn't able to return, but one by one found ways for Prince's four older siblings to leave the west African country before they were caught up in the war.

While Prince found shelter from the worst of the fighting during the 1990s in neighboring Sierra Leone, he wasn't able to reunite with his mother and father in Durham until 1998.

Teewia's parents moved to Delaware for work the following year, and Prince moved in with a house full of friends including his cousin, Daniel Kayee.

In 2002, he married his childhood sweetheart Ijema, nicknamed "Maria," in Nigeria, where her family had fled from Liberia, Kayee said. He never saw her again.

"They were writing each other and he was trying to make preparations for her to be here," Kayee said.

Teewia worked at a convenience store and attended North Carolina Central University in Durham, hoping to earn a degree in computer engineering. But he couldn't pull together enough money to keep going, so he made the surprising decision to take up arms for the United States after avoiding guns earlier in his life, Kayee said.

"He never hold arms at all," Kayee said. "We grew up in a Christian home. We don't believe in violence. We don't believe in fighting."

His mother didn't know of his decision to enlist in March 2004 until after he arrived at Fort Campbell that August, she said. Rebecca Teewia said she didn't know her son was married until after his death.

"He and I knew things about each other that he didn't even tell his parents," Kayee said.

One of those things was that Prince regretted his four-year enlistment. He didn't want to go to Iraq and wasn't receiving the training in computers promised to him, Kayee said.

"Everything they told him was different," Kayee said.

Still, Kayee said he considered his cousin a hero for giving up his life for his adopted country.

Teewia's family is trying to decide whether to bury Prince in the United States or in Liberia, as Kayee said Prince preferred. But it's unlikely the family can afford to send the body to Africa, just as it's doubtful Prince Teewia's wife can afford to attend a funeral in the United States, Kayee said.
 
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Prince K. Teewia
Authored by: anonymous on Friday, January 06 2006 @ 10:22 PM MST
Prince,
I would like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for our Country. And to your family, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

"Currahee"(We Stand Alone Together)
506th Inf. Motto
Prince K. Teewia
Authored by: anonymous on Saturday, January 07 2006 @ 09:04 AM MST
TO THE TWEEWIA FAMILY FROM THE WAHL FAMILY. WE ARE DEEPLY SADDEN BY THE NEWS OF PRINCE. YOU HAVE NOT DIED IN VAIN. AN YOU ARE AN AMERICAN HERO! THANK YOU FOR SERVING OUR COUNTRY. MORE IMPORTANTLY; FOR BEING A MILITARY BROTHER TO OUR SON. SGT GREGORY L. WAHL US ARMY DRAGON SOLDIER KIA BALAD, IRAQ 05-03-04 PRINCE IT'S UNSELFISH INDIVIDUALS LIKE YOUR SELF. AS A PARENT I DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MY SON. FOR YOU ALL ARE MILITARY BROTHERS WATCHING OVER ONE ANOTHER. TODAY YOU ARE RE-UNITED WITH GREGORY AND ALL YOUR FALLEN HEROES. PRINCE YOU HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF SO MANY. I ONLY HOPE YOU TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF ALL AMERICANS. FOR YOU ARE THE ELITE OF ALL AMERICAN'S. I URGE YOUR FAMILY TO REACH OUT TO YOUR POLITICAL LEADERS AND YOUR COMMUNITY TODAY. TO HAVE A STREET NAMED IN YOUR HONOUR. AFTER ALL YOU SERVED YOUR COMMUNITY, COUNTY, STATE, AND COUNTRY. GOD BLESS!
Prince K. Teewia
Authored by: anonymous on Tuesday, January 10 2006 @ 11:19 PM MST
The Teewia family has much to be proud of. Not only was Prince an avid soldier who was PROUD to be in the Army, he was also someone who touched the lives of those he encountered.

I want to give thanks to Prince for being my son's, PFC Daniel Bell, best friend. Prince proved himself to be trustworthy, loyal, and sincere. I know my son loved him like a brother and will NEVER forget him.

I too will miss having Prince come to my house when he and Daniel had leave. Prince was a very special person who's memory will live on in this household and in our hearts. He wlll be greatly missed.
Prince K. Teewia
Authored by: anonymous on Wednesday, July 05 2006 @ 09:16 PM MDT
As a a fellow Screaming Eagle and Liberian I want to send my condolences to the Teewia family. You will not be forgotten. God bless. AIR ASSAULT
Prince K. Teewia
Authored by: anonymous on Sunday, December 23 2007 @ 12:15 PM MST
Today is December 23rd 2007. In 6 days it will be your 2nd year on the otherside. . . . I miss you Teewia. I will never forget you. Thank You for dieing for OUR country.

Cpl. Daniel Bell
Prince K. Teewia
Authored by: anonymous on Thursday, December 27 2007 @ 11:12 PM MST
I was working on getting Prince his citizenship while we were in iraq. I just want to make sure things were completed since it was taken out of my hands after his passing. If there's anyone that would know this information, please respond. I would like to make sure everything was taken care of. He is the first Soldier I ever lost and I will do anything in my power to help him out.
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