FALLUJAH, IRAQ (December 20, 2004) – U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Will Duffield, 28, son of Covenant pastor Craig and Jeanne Duffield of the Evangelical Covenant Church of Ridgway, Pennsylvania, is recovering at a local hospital after being shot by insurgents in Fallujah recently.
Duffield, who has served with the Marines for three years, was conducting hostile searches with his unit on December 11 when he encountered four insurgents. They fired on U.S. troops and Duffield was wounded in the thigh, according to a recent story by the Ridgway Record.
Corp. Duffield will return to active duty following his treatment and recuperation. Duffield’s troop had served previously in Hawaii – Duffield was a company clerk there before coming to Iraq. He will most likely serve in an office capacity once he returns to his unit.
Rev. Duffield spoke to his son last Saturday. “He’s doing fine and the pain is not quite what it was at first,” said the pastor about his son’s current condition. “The hardest part for us was last Sunday night (December 12) because we had received a call saying he had been seriously injured. But we called our prayer chain at church and (eventually) almost all of the prayer chains in Ridgway were activated and then the larger Covenant prayer chain was activated.”
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