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Today flags will be at half-staff throughout Oregon in honor of Corporal Jessica Ellis, who was an Army combat medic and on her second tour in Iraq. She was killed in an IED explosion in Baghdad on Mother’s Day, May 11.

In a Department of Defense news release: DoD Identifies Army Casualty

Cpl. Jessica A. Ellis, 24, of Bend, Ore., died May 11 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when her vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. She was assigned to the 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.

“Jessica was an outstanding young woman and a decorated soldier who served her state and her country with courage and conviction,” said Governor Kulongoski. “She will be missed by her friends and family and Oregon will be less than we could have been without her.”

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