Douglas J. Jeffries Jr., 20

Thank you Doug for your sacrifice and providing all of us with the freedoms we cherish. You and your family will always be in our thoughts and prayers.
You and Koran will forever be linked as two brothers who were so selfless in protecting everyone around them. Rest in Peace. Your service and sacrifice is truly inspiring.

For quite a long time now I have been stunned by the death of Doug he was a dear friend and the shock is still with me , the pain raw, the rage at Westboro church for contaminating my memory makes me boil but then I remember him and it makes me smile. Doug was a year younger than me and the most caring person I had ever met. I remember talking to him the night he joined the military, the night I met my husband, when I was moving , he was one of my best friends and I can still see the sweet smile he would give when I tried telling him not to join, he suggested that I run away with him jokingly and when I came back to porterville he was going to come drag me back to the school to see mr . Coons and my favorite memory is of him was at the ag center holding up a tiny toy soldier telling me that no matter the size of an apponent there was so many little guys that the bad guy could never win ! I miss him soo much and the pain hurts everyday to loose someone so special. To never see him in his powder blue truck again. And to never his smile.