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An 'exceptional young man'

Apr-27-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

Another local paper turns the spotlight on a Stryker soldier.

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By BRIAN PERRY, Assistant City Editor

One of Maui's best and brightest is leading American soldiers in Iraq.

Damien Mason, a 1992 graduate of Baldwin High School and a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, is a captain with a Stryker Brigade.

He's the son of the late Maui attorney Ed Mason. His mother, Merlene Mason, lives in Kihei.

She reminisced Sunday about the transformation of her son when he entered West Point, but said she hadn't heard recently from the busy young officer assigned to the holy city of Najaf, currently an Iraqi hotbed of strife.

"When he has time he calls or writes," Merlene Mason told The Maui News.

"He graduated from West Point in 1996," she said. "He was editor in chief of the cadet magazine, played soccer and boxed. He was boxing champion of the battalion two years in a row.

"They go into the academy a little child, and they come out a man," she observed.


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