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• One of Our Own

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article first appeared in the November issue of Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine.

By Julie Anderson, Special Contributor
• Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - Permian Basin Oil and Gas Magazine recognizes Veterans Day by sharing the story of one of our own. It has been our privilege over the years to interview veterans and to write of their bravery and sacrifice.

This year, we honor a young man who enlisted in the U.S. Army as a teenager in 2007. A dozen years later this still-young man found himself in the Permian Basin oilfield.

Kameron Brown was in his company vehicle Saturday, Aug. 31, on his way to work when a gunman in a stolen U.S. mail van pulled up beside him and took his life. Kameron was only 30 years old.

The tragic circumstances of Kameron’s death and the other victims of the Odessa/Midland mass shooting have been shared around the world. The devastating illogicality of Kameron’s story – surviving the war-torn desert of Afghanistan as a soldier only to die in a friendly desert on American soil – is difficult to comprehend ...

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