Jacob C Palmatier

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SPRINGFIELD, IL, USA

U.S. Navy

CPL, HHC, 1ST BATTALION, 30TH INFANTRY, (TF LIBERTY), FORT BENNING, GA

MUQDADIYAH, IRAQ 02/24/2005

Jacob C. Palmatier was interested in everything. That’s why he began searching for a career path early. According to his father, when he was younger, maybe 3 or 4, his idea was that he’d just seen this Bible story in Sunday school, and he wanted to be a shepherd.

He always did things the way he wanted to do them. As a child, he read all the volumes of a set of encyclopedias his parents bought him. He taught himself how to play the guitar, the flute, the clarinet and the saxophone. His parents thought he’d become a writer. He wrote lots of different stories, usually funny. He had a quirky sense of humor that came out in his writing. He was the sort who loved Monty Python.

Palmatier graduated magna cum laude from Illinois College in Jacksonville with a major in English and a minor in history.

He is also survived by his wife, Bridget.

Jacob’s portrait is also on Poster 12