JD Vance has a lot of explaining to do in Colorado Springs

By: Quentin Young

Outlets: Colorado Newsline

Published: May 28, 2026

Words: 735

Last Updated: 1 month, 4 weeks ago

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When Benjamin Pennington was a kid, he liked to play Army with friends, and his room was filled with Army prints and model military planes. “Ben’s dream and life calling from an early age was to be an American soldier,” his obituary says.

And that he was. A Kentucky native, Pennington enlisted at 18 and was later stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, where he fell in love with his new state. He …

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