Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons

An installation by Marie Watt commemorating Northwest servicemen and -women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Ken Leisten, Jr.
Forest Grove, OR
1985–2004
Army PFC, Nat’l Guard, 2nd Bn., 162nd Inf.

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.”