Specialist Chin Sun Pak Wells served the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, the Pentagon. Chin was 24 years old.
Biography
Specialist, United States Army, administrative assistant to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. Known to everyone as Sunny.
She was born at Tongduchun in Korea and the family moved to Lawton, Oklahoma when she was four; she lived there eighteen years. She was one of three children, was inducted into the National Honor Society at Eisenhower High School and played basketball and softball there, and gardened and took photographs and listened to music. She worked two years as a customer service manager at Wal-Mart before enlisting.
She joined the Army in 1998, trained at Fort Jackson, served a tour in Korea, and came to the Pentagon. She was qualified as a combat lifesaver and expert with the rifle.
She meant to leave the Army the following year and go to college to study medicine.
She was born at Tongduchun in Korea and the family moved to Lawton, Oklahoma when she was four; she lived there eighteen years. She was one of three children, was inducted into the National Honor Society at Eisenhower High School and played basketball and softball there, and gardened and took photographs and listened to music. She worked two years as a customer service manager at Wal-Mart before enlisting.
She joined the Army in 1998, trained at Fort Jackson, served a tour in Korea, and came to the Pentagon. She was qualified as a combat lifesaver and expert with the rifle.
She meant to leave the Army the following year and go to college to study medicine.
Survivors
Her parents Norman and Kum Wells and her brothers Chin Sok and Chin Yong.
Keepsakes
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Service Record
Awards & Decorations
7
Unit awards
Memorials
National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial
Line 1976
Also Remembered
September 11, 2001 — The Pentagon
Burial Information
Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery
Section
64
Grave
5089
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Chin Pak
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Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, the Pentagon
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