The memory of a fallen Marine from the Upstate was honored this past weekend. A ceremony was held Saturday in Chesnee to celebrate the life of 20 year old, Lance Corporal Jackson Forringer.
As we previously reported, Forringer was killed while training at the Marine Combat Center in California, April 20th. Forringer graduated from Chesnee High School in 2021, he was stationed at Camp Lejuene in North Carolina. He was set to be deployed overseas and was killed after being sent to California for pre-deployment training.
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper ordered the flags at all state offices to be lowered to half-mast this past weekend, in honor of Lance Corporal Forringer.
His family, fellow marines, former classmates and many others were on hand at the ceremony to pay their final respects.
