Marques I. Knight, 24

Army, Specialist

Based: Ft. Hood, Texas

1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division

Supporting: Operation Enduring Freedom

Died: September 6, 2008

Aliabad, Afghanistan

Single

Gender: Male

Hometown: San Juan Capistrano

Burial: Gardens of Memory Cemetery, Kinsey, Ala.

Standing 6-foot-5, Marques Knight had a friend ship high protein foods to Afghanistan to try to bulk up his lean frame. After a hard childhood, family members said he saw the military as a path to a college degree and realizing his dreams. He hoped to turn his interest in drawing and animation into a career. The goal, he wrote on his personal website: to one day run a Pixar-type business.

Bruno G. De Solenni, 09/20/2008

Janelle F. King, 08/14/2008

Five memories of Marques I. Knight

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Marques was a strong person, growning up he always wanted better for himself and those he loved. He was the type of person if he could do it on his own, he wouldn't hesitate to do so. He was so amazingly tall, and so gorgeous in every aspect...and most of all he could keep you laughing for days with no end. I always looked at him amazed, one because he stood over everyone like a giant, and also because despite his life and the hand he was dealt he never quit, never stumbled without a quick recovery and never lost hope of making a better future for himself and those he truly loved. Always in my memories and in my heart will be your smirks, your sense of humor, your beautiful eyebrows and the way they raised while you were giving "the look", the way you always seemed so big and how I could never be as big as you, I love you dearly and I not only thank you for being who and what you were to me but protecting not only me but everyone with your service. Love you always and forever.

” — Summer Knight , October 22, 2008 at 2:17 p.m.

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Mark was part of my family. Not by blood but by love. I first met him in high school and then we became good friends when we moved into the same neighborhood while in high school. He was just a marvelous person inside and out. I miss his laugh more than anything else. No matter how hard he had it, he would always have us laughing. He loved his sister with every ounce of his heart and did a great job being a great big brother. He even adpoted my little brother and sister as his own. He lives in all our hearts and will be dearly missed. I want people not to just remember the true solider that he was, but remember the man who knew how to show love even when it wasn't shown to him.

” — Derrick Williams, January 22, 2009 at 5:44 p.m.

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