Proud mom mourns son who died in Iraq

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Chief Warrant Officer Donald Clark

BOARDMAN — For about 20 years Don Clark served his country, and his mother, Linda Clark, said he was proud to do his job.

Chief Warrant Officer Clark, a 1989 graduate of Boardman High School, died in a helicopter crash Saturday in Mosul, Iraq.

Details of the crash were unavailable Sunday night.

Clark was deployed to Iraq in July as an Army helicopter instructor/pilot.

“He was proud to be going to Iraq. That is what he’d been training for all these years,” said Linda of her son’s willingness to serve overseas.

“He said he was going there to get his job done. That’s how he viewed it,” she said.

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