DeAngelo B. Snow
Specialist, United States Army
August 30, 1988 – September 17, 2010
Age – 22
Saginaw, MI
Operation Enduring Freedom
526th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, KY
Died at FOB Wilson of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his vehicle with a rocket-propelled grenade
Spc. DeAngelo B. Snow, 22, died Friday in Kandahar province joined the military after graduation from Buena Vista High School in 2008 to serve his country. The 22-year-old Snow was acting as gunner, though his job in the Army is that of quartermaster.
DeAngelo will never be forgotten,” MG Stein said at his memorial. “What he did, he did with his heart. He did what he did so others could live in a country that was free from fear and free from suffering.
He was very well-known, very polite people person. He was loving, funny, loved to dance.
Before being deployed in June to Afghanistan, Snow drew an image for his mother, Deloris Snow, of two hands pushed together in prayer. Dangling from the fingers is a dog tag necklace bearing his name. His mother made the image into a tattoo on her leg. McCall said it was one of her nephew’s last gifts to her.
Snow’s death came nearly a year after his father, Barnell Amos, died after a robbery gone awry in Saginaw. A 9-year-old boy also was killed the Sept. 21, 2009, robbery. The case remains unsolved, Snow had seven brothers and seven sisters between the families of his father and mother. He was engaged to be married.
He was remembered by fellow soldiers with the following words –
I am truly sorry for your loss, I attended basic with him and he was a good man and a great soldier! He will forever be in my memories and prayers! As we would say back than “AAA-O Spc. Snow”
Samantha Gallardo
I went to Basic Training with Snow and he was an exceptional artist. This is a very sad happening and I will always keep Snow in my thoughts and his family in my prayers. Snow is a true hero and will be missed.
SGT Anthony Wynn