Current:Home > BackFamily says Georgia soldier killed in Jordan drone attack "was full of life"-Angel Dreamer Wealth Society D1 Reviews & Insights
Family says Georgia soldier killed in Jordan drone attack "was full of life"
View Date:2025-01-11 05:34:55
Sgt. Kennedy Sanders was one of three U.S. service members killed in a drone attack at a base in Jordan over the weekend. Her mother, Oneida Sanders, said she is still feeling "disbelief, shock, anger."
"I have so many questions," Onedia Sanders told CBS News.
Kennedy Sanders, who was posthumously promoted from specialist to sergeant on Monday, was set to return home in August. The 24-year-old already had plans to take the next step in her military career, her mother said.
"Kennedy was full of life," Oneida told CBS News. "She was a breath of fresh air. She was so likeable, by so many people."
Sanders, along with Breonna Moffett, 23, and William Rivers, 46 — the other two service members killed in the attack — was an Army reservist at Fort Moore in Georgia. President Biden spoke separately with the families of all three slain soldiers to offer his condolences, the White House said.
"The president shared his encounter about losing a loved one, and that really comforted me," Kennedy Sanders' father, Shawn Sanders, said.
Mr. Biden's first wife and one of his daughters were both killed in a car crash in 1972, when the president was still a senator-elect. One of his sons, Beau Biden, who served in Iraq as part of the Delaware Army National Guard, died of a brain tumor in 2015 at age 46.
"He made it very personal and I really felt that he had a sense of compassion for us as a family," Oneida Sanders said.
Shawn Sanders said his daughter's posthumous promotion was very meaningful.
"I really know what that meant to her," he said. "She was working toward getting that promotion. That was one of the most special moments in this whole encounter, that, you know, that coming from the president of the United States."
- In:
- Jordan
- Drone
- U.S. Army
Manuel Bojorquez is a CBS News national correspondent based in Miami. He joined CBS News in 2012 as a Dallas-based correspondent and was promoted to national correspondent for the network's Miami bureau in January 2017. Bojorquez reports across all CBS News broadcasts and platforms.
Twitter InstagramveryGood! (76896)
Related
- Florida man’s US charges upgraded to killing his estranged wife in Spain
- Alix Earle Makes Quick Outfit Change in the Back of an Uber for New York Fashion Week Events
- U.S. Open women's semifinal match delayed by environmental protest
- One way employers drive workers to quit? Promote them.
- Shawn Mendes Confesses He and Camila Cabello Are No Longer the Closest
- A former Texas lawman says he warned AG Ken Paxton in 2020 that he was risking indictment
- Time off 'fueled a fire' as Naomi Osaka confirms 2024 return months after giving birth
- How the Phillips Curve shaped macroeconomics
- Early Week 11 fantasy football rankings: 30 risers and fallers
- What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
Ranking
- Louisiana asks court to block part of ruling against Ten Commandments in classrooms
- Coach Prime, all the time: Why is Deion Sanders on TV so much?
- 'One of the best summers': MLB players recall sizzle, not scandal, from McGwire-Sosa chase
- A magnitude 5 earthquake rattled a rural area of Northern California but no damage has been reported
- The White Stripes drop lawsuit against Donald Trump over 'Seven Nation Army' use
- Danny Masterson sentenced to 30 years to life for rape convictions
- Time off 'fueled a fire' as Naomi Osaka confirms 2024 return months after giving birth
- UN goal of achieving gender equality by 2030 is impossible because of biases against women, UN says
Recommendation
-
Seattle man faces 5 assault charges in random sidewalk stabbings
-
Pelosi says she’ll run for reelection in 2024 as Democrats try to win back House majority
-
Germany pulled off the biggest upset of its basketball existence. Hardly anyone seemed to notice
-
The Eagles Long Goodbye: See the setlist for the legendary rock band's final tour
-
Sister Wives’ Kody Brown Explains His Stance on His Daughter Gwendlyn Brown’s Sexuality
-
Philadelphia officer who shot man in his car surrenders to police
-
A menstrual pad that tests for cervical cancer? These teens are inventing it
-
Man gets 110 years for killing ex-girlfriend, her grandmother outside Indiana auto seating plant