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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Jason Schaffer
Hood River, OR
1979–2007
Army Spc., 1st Bn., 12th Cavalry Rgt., 3rd Bde., 1st Cavalry Div.

Aspired to become a police officer; graduated from a Municipal Police Officers’ Education Program in 2000 and was working toward degree in Criminal Justice. Parents believed military put his life on the right track. Newlywed; was weeks away from visiting his wife and stepson in Hood River, OR when killed.