Friends reunite for touching memorial
Posted: Thursday, October 11, 2012
Amy Binkley Assistant managing editor
Weslea Teraberry exuded the energy and excitement of a normal four-year-old. She didn’t walk; she bounced. Her outgoing personality drew people to her, and she never hesitated to tell of her future plans to attend Johnson Primary School with her sister aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
Weslea, however, would never make it to her first day of kindergarten.
In a tragic twist of a typical day, her mother, Chantel, found her standing in her crib being choked by the window blind cord. Medics were unable to revive her, and she passed away during an air-lift transport to a nearby hospital Feb. 15, 2008.
The impact continues to ripple across the Marine Corps’s relatively small community where friends become instant family. Just as every reunion, birthday and joyous occasion is celebrated by many, when tragedy strikes it’s not felt by one but by all.
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