High School Graduating Class of 2005

PLANT CITY - Jody Missildine left home for the Army last spring, just a week after he graduated from Plant City High School. His grandparents had raised him. He didn't want them to have to pay for college, and besides, he hoped to travel.

Saturday, a roadside bomb in Iraq exploded near Missildine's humvee, killing him, his family said. He was 19.



There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire
There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can't even say the names


From LIVES IN THE BALANCE, by Jackson Brown