Fallen Marine's Child Born One Month After His Death in Afghanistan Blast
When Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum of Jackson, Wyoming, was killed, he left behind a wife who was pregnant with their first child. The couple hadn’t even been married a year when McCollum was whisked away, a fact…
When Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum of Jackson, Wyoming, was killed, he left behind a wife who was pregnant with their first child.
The couple hadn’t even been married a year when McCollum was whisked away, a fact that has left many with broken hearts for the young wife and mother-to-be.
As Jiennah Crayton began life without her other half, people banded together to let her know she was not forgotten and her husband’s sacrifice would be remembered.
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“My heart is incredibly heavy today, in the wee hours of the morning my beautiful daughter got that knock on her door that no Military spouse wants to get,” Jill Miller Crayton, Jiennah’s mother, posted on Facebook after the horrible news.
“Her strong, handsome, incredibly brave husband of less than a year was one of the 13 soldiers that gave their life yesterday in Kabul. She’s 36 weeks pregnant and she lost her love. I never got to meet him, but I will meet his baby, and I will love and spoil that baby forever.
“lease hold her in your heart and soul because she needs it, this mama knows exactly what she’s going though.”
GoFundMes were started, and local companies banded together to support the family