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Hero honored in Willow Creek

Feb- 7-2005 » Filed Under: 1/25 SBCT

This article reports on the progress of Amanda Mohon, who was injured in the mess hall attack.

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By Mike Morrow The Times-Standard

WILLOW CREEK -- Amanda Mohon got a hero's welcome Saturday -- from a room full of heroes.

Mohon, the 19-year-old from Willow Creek who was injured in a Dec. 21 suicide bombing attack on a dining compound in Mosul, Iraq, laughed, listened and shared some stories during a celebration in her honor at the Veterans of Foreign Wars building in Willow Creek.

It was all, she said, "a little embarrassing," but it "was the least we could do for one of our own," one member of VFW Post 9561 told her.

Mohon returned from Iraq three weeks ago and will be leaving Feb. 13 for Fort Sam Houston and the Brooke Medical Center in San Antonio and additional treatments.

A solider in the 25th Infantry Division, Mohon suffered second-degree burns on her face, third-degree burns on her hands, and a large shrapnel wound on her thigh. She received a Purple Heart earlier during a ceremony in Texas.

"Everything is going very well," she said. "I've got more (treatments) and then I'll be off to Fort Lewis, Wash. As much as I love being home, I can't wait to get back with my unit."

Pausing, she said, "I'd go right back to Iraq if I could. Those people in my unit are my second family. I want to hang out with them again. They're family, and I miss them."

However, Mohon said she'd "be scared to go back ... but I know it's not going to happen."


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