Although I didn't know Amanda for very long, she made a huge impact on my life. She and I met in August of last year right after the deployment started. After she went back to Texas for a while, she and I fell out of touch but as soon as she got back we started spending almost every day together. I never got to tell her, but she made the end of the deployment so much easier for me to go through and I honestly feel as though we pulled each other through the very end. I'm so grateful that I got to meet her and that I was able to get as close to her as I did in that short time. My favorite memory of Amanda was probably the day she and I went fishing out at Kitsap Lake. I'd been wanting to go for a while and as soon as I mentioned it she was ridiculously excited to go. She and I just sat on the pier, told jokes, laughed, and just enjoyed the other's company. We spent the entire day out there and made plans to go back but with this rainy Washington weather, we never got the chance. It didn't matter whether we were watching movies together, having coffee, riding around in the Hummer, or just sharing a meal together, she always had a great outlook and a smile on her face that made it impossible to be upset around her. I'm so blessed to have had Amanda as a friend because she was an absolutely amazing person.
--Michelle Reece
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