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May 21, 2012, 6:12 am

The lost of another heroine Haitian Sister Fighting in Afghanistan

“Even after all of this, losing my daughter, I still love the Army,” Pierre’s father, Jean Baptiste Lamour, said in Haiti’s Creole language translated by Pierre’s cousin, Will-Rose Etienne. “I have nothing bad to say about the Army. This is life. This is how it happens.”

 

Pierre, 28, was one of five U.S. soldiers killed on April 16, 2011 when an Afghan National Army soldier attacked them with multiple grenades, according to U.S. Department of Defense reports. Pierre, who was in her first tour overseas and had been deployed in late 2010, served as a human resource specialist helping train Afghan soldiers and was also on foot patrol, according to family members.

 

Baptiste Lamour, who emigrated from Haiti and has lived in the United States for 30 years, used to tell Pierre when she was growing up to join the Army. Lamour, 30, enlisted in the Marine Corps after graduating high school in 2001 and served five tours prior to joining the Army. He is currently stationed in North Carolina and has not returned home because he’s scheduled to be deployed, family members said.

 

Pierre served in the Army since 2004. She joined at age 21, after attending Edison State College in Lee County for two years. She studied pre-med and was enrolled in Columbia Southern University, an online university pursuing a criminal justice degree.

 

Cindy Lamour Watson said her sister wanted to make the military her career. “As strong as my sister was, when she went (to Afghanistan) her heart was touched by what she saw,” Lamour Watson said. Her
brother of a U.S. Army soldier who was killed in Afghanistan and the other brother. Staff Sgt. Jean Robert Lamour was deployed to Afghanistan where his sister, Sgt. Linda L. Pierre was killed last this past April. 2011.