From Valor to Violence

In 1993, a 21-year-old newly graduated Naval officer was ready to start her career as an engineer. She had excelled during her time at the Naval Academy, made excellent grades, was a star athlete, and was known as a very good person around campus. Despite her accomplishments, though, the young lady was battling a personal relationship that she thought was great at first... until it wasn't. Once that relationship came to blows, and someone felt rejected, it would end in tragedy, taking three lives...

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News Sources

1. 1. Steel Hearts- https://www.steel-hearts.org/store/p/ltjg-alton-l-grizzard
   2. United States Navy- https://usna93.com/usna93/index.php/in-memoriam/1-kerryn-lynn-o-neil
   3. The Baltimore Sun- https://www.newspapers.com/image/170766673/?terms=kerry%20oneill%20alton 
      1. https://www.newspapers.com/image/170660624/?match=1&terms=kerry%20oneill%20alton
   4. News of Cumberland County- https://www.newspapers.com/image/1083086745/?match=1&terms=kerry%20oneill%20alton 
   5. Citizen's Voice- https://www.newspapers.com/image/438634583/?match=1&terms=kerry%20oneill%20alton
      1. https://www.newspapers.com/image/438645232/?match=1&terms=george%20p%20smith
   6. The Times Leader- https://www.newspapers.com/image/416536573/?terms=kerry%20oneill%20alton
      1. https://www.newspapers.com/image/416529392/?match=1&terms=kerry%20oneill%20alton
      2. https://www.timesleader.com/archive/836301/questions-pain-remain-in-naval-officers-deaths
   7. Virginia Tech Library- https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1993/rt9312/931204/12040224.htm
   8. LA Times- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-12-02-mn-63155-story.html
      1. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-12-03-mn-63624-story.html
   9. The Sacramento Bee- https://www.newspapers.com/image/626651524/?match=1&terms=george%20p%20smith
   10. Standard Speaker- https://www.newspapers.com/image/61402741/?match=1&terms=george%20p%20smith
   11. New York Times- https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/07/us/3-promising-naval-officers-leave-tears-and-disbelief.html
   12. Kerry's mother Bonnie's testimony- https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/oneill_testimony_10_08_02.pdf

 

 

 

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