Jordan W. Hess |
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Jordan W. Hess was a complex person. He was a warrior and a champion amateur wrestler. But he also wrote poetry, dabbled in blown glass and had an artist's eye with a camera. "He liked to make things," said his father, Bill. "He was a free spirit and did the things he wanted to do." Hess, 26, of Marysville, Wash., died Dec. 5 at Brooke Army Medical Center of injuries suffered by a roadside bomb Nov. 11 in Ta'Meem. He was assigned to Schweinfurt, Germany. He was impatient with school, although bright with math and some other subjects, said his mother, Tammy. A diagnosis of attention deficit disorder may explain the impatience. He got excited anytime he got something new _ taking it apart and putting it back together. He worked as a roofer after attending high school and got a GED. In basic training, some recruits called him the "Terminator" after he escaped from one group during a war-game exercise, summoned his own squad and captured the other team. An instructor once challenged Hess to a no-rules, one-on-one face off. His wrestling experience came in handy and he accidentally broke the instructor's leg with a takedown move.