Army Sgt. 1st Class Neil A. Prince, 35, of Baltimore; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.; killed June 11 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle in Taqaddum, Iraq. Also killed was Spc. Casey Byers.
HE LOVED HIS SON
Neil Armstrong Prince — his parents named him after the first astronaut to walk on the moon — was born in Jamaica and moved with his family to Baltimore when he was 10,
Prince enlisted right after graduating from City College. He met his wife, Suzette, while she was working as an Army medic.
Suzette Prince, 31, a nurse at Kirk U.S. Army Health Clinic at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, said she met her husband as an Army medic. She spoke of him as a man who adored their son, Jordan.
“Number one, he loved his son,” she said after the service in Aberdeen. “He wanted everything for his son.”
“He loved being a soldier,” Mrs. Prince [said]. “I tried to get him to leave, but he always said that’s his job.”
Mrs. Prince and the couple’s 4-year-old son, Jordan, live with the sergeant’s parents.
Prince will be awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart posthumously
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