Nicole Gee, Marine Killed In Afghanistan War, Honored At High School Football Game In Roseville

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ROSEVILLE (CBS13) — Fans filled the stands Friday nighttime for precocious schoolhouse football, but successful 1 stadium, the applause resonated with a deeper meaning for a existent hometown leader mislaid successful the last days of the warfare successful Afghanistan.

It’s an representation seared into minds amid heavy sorrow. A young Marine sergeant holding and protecting a tiny beingness successful Afghanistan.

In this Aug. 20, 2021, representation provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, Marines assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), including Sgt. Nicole Gee calms an babe during an evacuation astatine Hamid Karzai International Airport successful Kabul, Afghanistan. Officials said Aug. 28, that Gee of Sacramento, Calif., was 1 of the Marines killed successful Thursday’s bombing astatine the airport. (Sgt. Isaiah Campbell/U.S. Marine Corps)

Nicole Gee would suffer her beingness doing her occupation and serving her country.

On Friday night, friends, household and strangers astatine her aged precocious school—Oakmont successful Roseville—put sports speech to salute her sacrifice.

Players wore reminders of what it means to beryllium a existent leader successful the tract of battle.

“We had immoderate helmet stickers made for our players,” 1 schoolhouse authoritative said. “We person a assistance that was created by our Oakmont teachers for subject students going into the military.”

This latest motion added to the different displays of gratitude similar immoderate chalk creation showing the lasting representation that captured Nicole’s caring touch.

“We conscionable wanted to person an wide tribute from our assemblage to amusement her household and friends that we attraction and we admit her service,” a schoolhouse authoritative said.

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A work that ended arsenic it began—with full dedication and willingness to wage the eventual price. Earlier this week, Gee was awarded the Purple Heart.