In Memory of Dr. John “JP” Pryor

Could you all please pray for the repose of Dr. John “JP” Pryor’s soul. On Christmas Eve, my Jim called me to let me know that after he got off work, he and his paramedic would be stopping off at a party at another “PENNStar person’s home”. When he got home earlier than I thought he would, he told me that Jim McCans (a PENNStar paramedic who went to Iraq in 2007 as a “private contractor” w/his “cadaver dog” looking for missing soldiers killed by terrorists…if you saw the reports in 12/2007 of mass graves found…that was Jim and Stache his dog…they were recently honored by the ASPCA as dog of the year…) had come in with the news that JP had died that morning…Christmas morning…in Iraq. He was supposed to have been making a Christmas morning phone call to his wife and kids…but the call never came. He died in a mortar attack, in Mosel, having just gotten back from Christmas morning mass. Jim remember’s JP as a “brilliant trauma surgeon who would grill the flight crews on the patient’s condition from the start of the accident scene and the person’s condition and care through out the flight”…and if you knew he was on, you’d better be on you toes… He was a kind and caring individual who, during his first deployment to Iraq, learned Farsi so he could communicate with the Iraqi people…especially the children…so he could earn their trust and facilitate their recovery… PENNStar…and everyone at Penn…will miss JP greatly!