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Wounded Covenanter Recovering in Iraq
FALLUJAH, IRAQ (December 20, 2004) - U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Will Duffield,
28, son of Covenant pastor Craig and Jeanne Duffield of the Evangelical
Covenant Church of Ridgway, Pennsylvania, is recovering at a local
hospital after being shot by insurgents in
Fallujah recently.
Duffield, who has served with the Marines for three years, was
conducting hostile searches with his unit on December 11 when he
encountered four insurgents. They fired on U.S. troops and Duffield was
wounded in the thigh, according to a recent story by the Ridgway
Record.
Corp. Duffield will return to active duty following his treatment and
recuperation. Duffield's troop had served previously in Hawaii –
Duffield was a company clerk there before coming to Iraq. He will most
likely serve in an office capacity once he returns to his unit.
Rev. Duffield spoke to his son last Saturday. "He's doing fine and the
pain is not quite
what it was at first," said the pastor about his son's current
condition. "The hardest part for us was last Sunday night (December 12)
because we had received a call saying he had been seriously injured. But
we called our prayer chain at church and (eventually) almost all of the
prayer chains in Ridgway were activated and then the larger Covenant
prayer chain was activated."
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