Weary of slow pace of classes at Forest Grove HS, earned GED and enlisted at 17. Skilled with computers; hoped to pursue degree in computer science. He voluntarily changed units to be deployed to Iraq. “He had a smile that would stop a truck.”
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Ken Leisten, Jr. - Forest Grove, OR
- 1985–2004
Army PFC, Nat’l Guard, 2nd Bn., 162nd Inf.