Military Heroes – U. S. Army

Jacob Perkins

…At about 1:20 a.m., the bus pulled back onto the highway. It had just crossed the rough surface of the road’s shoulder when a Matrix Expedited Services truck carrying 14,000 pounds of ball bearing crashed into it.

It woke Michelle, and her mom began telling her to get out of the bus.

Michelle stood up. “I turned around and you could see the transport truck there on fire at the back of the bus.”

At about the same time, Army Sgt. Jacob Perkins, 28, was driving his truck westbound. Perkins was stationed at Fort Drum in the First Squadron 89th Calvary Regiment and had served in Iraq. He was beginning a couple of weeks leave with a long drive to his home in Mountain Grove, Mo.

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