Greenwood Commonwealth - News - 04/24/2005 - It's a small world for four Marines serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom: "So what are the odds of four members from Greenwood, Mississippi ending up in the same unit deployed to the rural deserts of western Iraq? All four of these Marines grew up no more than 10 minutes away from each other. They have the same friends, went to the same schools and share the same Mississippi culture. ll four of these Marines grew up no more than 10 minutes away from each other. They have the same friends, went to the same schools and share the same Mississippi culture. "My mom, Sheri Smith, a former Greenwood High School teacher, taught Ware Spanish in high school, and we found that out after only talking five minutes," Smith explained.
Yet they didn't meet each other until after they joined the Corps and ended up in the same battalion together supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom here.
All four agree that it's unusual that they are all here in this fight together.
"We all wanted to do something different than everybody else and it's kind of funny how we're in the same place in Iraq," they all agreed, as Ware summed it up. "You never know who you will run into in life. It's a small world and the four of us are proof of it."
Yet they didn't meet each other until after they joined the Corps and ended up in the same battalion together supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom here.
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