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What: |
Dedication of the Sergeant Amanda N. Pinson Post Office Building |
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When: |
Friday, May 6, 2016 – 11 a.m. |
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Where: |
55 Grasso Plaza |
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Who: |
The Honorable Ann Wagner Charles J. Miller Cathy Vaughn |
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Background: |
Sergeant Amanda N. Pinson, 21, of St. Louis, Missouri; assigned to the 101st Military Intelligence Detachment, 501st Special Troops Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky. was killed Sergeant Pinson, a 2002 graduate of Hancock High School, was one of the top students in her class, winning several scholarships. She cheered with the pompon squad, played basketball and softball She deployed to Iraq in September 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. She was killed in action on March 16, 2006, during a mortar attack on her compound in Tikrit, Iraq. She is the first female soldier from Missouri killed by hostile fire and she is the first female cryptologist the National Security Agency has honored by engraving her name on the Cryptologic Memorial that honors and remembers those who gave their lives “serving in silence.” On November 5, 2015, legislation designating the Affton Post Office building as the Sgt. Amanda N. Pinson Post Office building was signed into law by President Obama. |
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