Cabarrus County, NC - Army Sgt. David B. Parson

War in Iraq
Army Sgt. David B. Parson, 30, Kannapolis, N.C.; assigned to the 
1st Battalion, 37th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Friedburg, 
Germany; shot and killed while conducting a raid on a house in Baghdad 
July 6. 

David B. Parson joined the Marines about a year after high school 
graduation, then left after four years to move closer to his mother and 
stepfather. He worked for a time doing maintenance on planes owned by 
NASCAR drivers, but he found he preferred a more regimented life and 
joined the Army, said stepfather Bill Whitlow.

The family shipped out to his base in Germany in February, and Parson 
left for Iraq on Mother’s Day. Parson, 30, of Kannapolis, N.C., died 
July 6 under hostile fire in Iraq. He would have been married six years 
on July 17. He and his wife, Mary “Emmy” Parson, 23, have three children, 
ages 1 to 4. 

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