Camp Shelby museum to feature exhibit on Mississippi’s female Marine killed in Iraq

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) – The Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby will quickly honor the primary feminine member of the armed forces from Mississippi killed in motion within the Conflict on Terror.

In November, the museum will open an exhibit honoring United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Casey Casanova of McComb.

Casanova and three different Marines had been killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in Could 2008.

The exhibit can have Casanova’s costume uniform, her helmet and a number of other of her medals.

The artifacts had been donated to the museum a couple of days in the past by Casanova’s mom, Paula Carruth.

“Fairly a tragic factor, for her household, clearly and for our state, and she or he was an solely little one,” mentioned Tommy Lofton, Mississippi Armed Forces Museum “So for us, it’s an enormous honor to have the ability to proceed her story, her legacy, and to show others of her service but additionally, so we are able to admire and honor her sacrifice to her state and to her nation.”

the exhibit is scheduled to open Nov. 10, which is the 247th birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps.

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