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Oct 17, 2017 · The combat death of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s 29-year-old son in 2010 was thrust into the news Tuesday when President Donald Trump questioned whether John Kelly ever received a...
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Sep 3, 2020 · President Donald Trump openly questioned the point of a young Marine's sacrifice during a Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery with his father, retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly,...
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- Robert Kelly Was Killed in Afghanistan After Stepping on A Land Mine
- He Was from Tallahassee & Was A History Buff
- He Was Married & Was Preparing to Move to California
- He Was Worried That Americans Were Forgetting About The War
1st Lieutenant Robert Michael Kelly, John Kelly’s son, was killed on November 9, 2010 at the age of 29. While leading a platoon of Marines in Sangin, Afghanistan, Kelly died instantly when he stepped on a land mine. Sangin was an area where Robert’s platoon was deployed two months prior, and it’s where British forces had been struggling to fight ba...
Robert Michael Kelly lived in Tallahassee, Florida, and he graduated from Florida State University. He enlisted in the Marine Corps just a few days after his graduation. After his death, Kelly’s friends remembered him as someone who always intended to serve his country. “I think he always knew he was going into the military,” Matthew Rowland, a cla...
At the time of his death, Robert Michael Kelly was married, with the wedding ceremony having taken place three years earlier. His wife was Heather Landry, whom he met while attending Florida State University. Landry was actually the cousin of one of Kelly’s college friends, Matthew Rowland, and Kelly asked his friend if he could introduce them, acc...
While he was serving, Robert Kelly became concerned that those back home were letting the war slip into the background, with it no longer getting as much TV coverage or as much discussion among politicians. According to The Washington Post, two months before his death, Kelly sent an email to his friends in the U.S. reminding them to stay tuned to w...
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Oct 19, 2017 · Speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room, Kelly disclosed what he was told when informed that his son, 1st Lt. Robert Michael Kelly, died when he stepped on a landmine in...
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May 29, 2018 · White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly visited his son Robert Michael Kelly's grave at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.
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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, center, took to the White House podium Thursday afternoon and said he was stunned to learn that Congresswoman Frederic...
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Oct 19, 2017 · In heart-felt remarks about his own loss, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a former general whose Marine son was killed in Afghanistan, said Thursday he was “stunned” by a Florida lawmaker’s criticism of President Donald Trump’s condolence call to a fallen soldier’s wife.
