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Jennifer Hartman, a Tamaqua high grad, is among three killed by a suicide bomber in Baghdad

By Wendy Solomon and John J. Moser Of The Morning Call

Jennifer Marie Hartman, an exuberant Tamaqua High School grad who loved four-wheeling on all-terrain vehicles and all things that go fast, never expected to end up in Iraq.

But she was making the best of it, four years into her five-year commitment to the Army. She signed up right out of high school to get schooling to go into the medical field, said her dad, David Hartman of West Penn Township. snip

''When she signed up to go for schooling, the gentleman promised she wouldn't go to Iraq,'' the father said Friday. ''If there was any chance in hell that she would go to Iraq, I wouldn't have signed that paper. I guess even the Army lies to get you to sign up.''

Jennifer refused to talk to her family about what she was doing in Iraq. Instead, the Army sergeant would change the subject to four-wheeling on all-terrain vehicles — her biggest passion in life. snip

Her fear? ''Getting blown up in Iraq.''