<p>Published in the Boston Herald:</p>
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A slightly faded red and gold Marine Corps flag billowed in the frigid breeze yesterday, just above Bob Faulkner’s front door. Though this Swampscott firefighter never donned a Marine uniform, he flew the banner with all the requisite love and pride. </p>
<p>Wednesday night, after the Marine envoy and a chaplain completed their sorrowful visit to Faulkner’s neighbor, Raymond Harris, Faulkner rushedover....
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<p>Published in the Boston Herald:</p>
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In this age of cyberspace, all that is needed to add insult to the most horrific kind of injury is a cell phone or a minicam. </p>
<p>Yesterday, minutes after Iraqi insurgents posted a Web video purportedly showing Swampscott Marine Capt. Jennifer Harris’ CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter being hit by a missile Wednesday, the stark two-minute clip literally made its way around the world. With Islamic chanting added to scenes of the burning craft’s final minutes, the clear intent was to delight in the deaths of the seven Americans who went down with the chopper....
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<p>Posted on the Boston Herald:</p>
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An insurgent group linked to al-Qaeda posted a Web video yesterday showing what it said was the downing of a U.S. helicopter that was piloted by Swampscott Marine Capt. Jennifer Harris. </p>
<p>The U.S. military has said it did not believe the CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter was shot down in the crash Wednesday northwest of Baghdad....
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<p>Published in the Boston Herald:</p>
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Flying her fellow Marines in and out of hell did not prevent Capt. Jennifer Jean Harris from making the time to send presents back to each member of her large and loving family. </p>
<p>They fill the Swampscott bedroom where Ray and Rosalie Harris</p>
<p>Published in the Boston Herald:</p>
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They had dreamed of a different homecoming. Marine Capt. Jennifer Harris was supposed to be welcomed back from Iraq this week with hugs and tears, plenty of laughter, balloons and American flags. </p>
<p>But yesterday, the proud Swampscott family who was ushered across the icy tarmac of Hanscom Air Force Base and into a heated waiting area, always knew war could break their hearts....
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<p>Swampscott to remember a fallen hero</p>
<p>Published in the Boston Globe:</p>
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Swampscott is preparing a hero's welcome for Jennifer J. Harris , the Marine helicopter pilot killed in Iraq when her Sea Knight transport was shot down by insurgents.</p>
<p>The body of the Swampscott High graduate who excelled at the US Naval Academy has been returned stateside to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, but her homecoming to Massachusetts was delayed by yesterday's storm....
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<p>'She flies now on the wings of angels'</p>
<p>Published in the Boston Globe:</p>
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Captain Jennifer Jean Harris was one of the first pilots to reach her helicopter and lift off when the emergency call came into the ready room on the day that she died. Though the 28-year-old Marine was just days from leaving Iraq, Harris was still focused on ferrying injured Marines to safety, said her former commander, Colonel Michael Hudson . Before the CH-46 troop transport she was piloting crashed this month, he said, Harris and her six crew members saved the life of one more Marine....
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<p>A Woman Who Dreamed of Flying with the Marines
by Chris Arnold </p>
<p>All Things Considered, February 14, 2007 </p>
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Capt. Jennifer Harris lived her dream of flying with the air wing of the Marines in Iraq, where she piloted Sea Knight helicopters on combat rescue missions.
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<p>Listen at:
<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7407239%5B/url%5D">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7407239</a></p>
<p>Published in the Annapolis Capital:</p>
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The death on Feb. 7 of Marine Capt. Jennifer Jean Harris, a combat helicopter pilot, has broken the hearts of many in Annapolis.</p>
<p>And none more than that of her former sponsor, Betsey Sanpere, who lives in a brick townhome just off Spa Road....
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<p>*Women join ranks of graduates memorialized for sacrifice on Naval Academy's hallowed wall *</p>
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Throughout her accomplished Naval Academy and Marine Corps career, Capt. Jennifer J. Harris never attracted special attention for being a woman.</p>
<p>So it was fitting, friends said, that she was not singled out in death, when the academy placed her name yesterday among hundreds of others on a marble tablet designated to honor graduates who were killed in action....
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Marine Capt. Jennifer J. Harris never attracted special attention for being a woman throughout her career at the Naval Academy and in the Marine Corps.</p>
<p>So it was appropriate, friends said, that she was not singled out in death, when the academy put her name this month among hundreds of others on a marble tablet that honors graduates killed in action....
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