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Benghazi victim Glen Doherty was kind of a homemaker

Friends serve up his chili recipe at memorial foundation fundraiser

Flag was front and center
Flag was front and center

Glen Doherty, a former Navy SEAL who did contract work for the CIA, lived in Encinitas. He was one of four Americans killed on September 11, 2012, in an attack on the United States diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya.

On April 6, about 150 of Doherty’s friends gathered at Encinitas’ American Legion Hall to support a fundraiser for the Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation.

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“We’re serving his own chili recipe,” said organizer Nicole Miller. “He was kind of a homemaker.” Miller was one of the first to find out about the tragic loss of her friend.

Miller worked out with Doherty at U.S. Crossfit, a gym around the corner from the American Legion Hall on Second Street. “He was the kind of guy that you instantly became friends with,” said Miller. Doherty officiated the wedding for the Millers in 2008.

“The State Department showed up at the Encinitas home of Sean Lake, Doherty’s best friend. Lake and Miller’s husband were working out at Crossfit together, and the news traveled fast,” said Miller. “We were shocked. We all knew something happened in Libya, but we thought Glen was in Tripoli.”

According to Miller, the 2016 film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi correctly portrayed the events that took Doherty from Tripoli to Benghazi the night of the attack. By the time Doherty arrived to help, U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and the U.S. Foreign Service’s IT specialist, Sean Smith, were already missing.

Miller says she and many others are still angered at the events that followed, long after Doherty was laid to rest. Congressional and news media investigations have debunked the official U.S. government’s story of the attack, and the death of the ambassador and the three Americans.

As reported by a Fox News investigation, Doherty was killed shortly upon his arrival by hostile mortar fire, along with former Navy SEAL and Imperial Beach resident Tyrone Woods, fighting from the rooftop of a supposedly secret CIA annex building.

In honor of Doherty’s memory, Miller is running the Boston Marathon on April 18, joining some of Doherty’s friends from his hometown in Gloucester, MA. Part of the proceeds from the Encinitas fundraiser will help Miller with her entry fee.

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Glen Doherty, a former Navy SEAL who did contract work for the CIA, lived in Encinitas. He was one of four Americans killed on September 11, 2012, in an attack on the United States diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya.

On April 6, about 150 of Doherty’s friends gathered at Encinitas’ American Legion Hall to support a fundraiser for the Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation.

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“We’re serving his own chili recipe,” said organizer Nicole Miller. “He was kind of a homemaker.” Miller was one of the first to find out about the tragic loss of her friend.

Miller worked out with Doherty at U.S. Crossfit, a gym around the corner from the American Legion Hall on Second Street. “He was the kind of guy that you instantly became friends with,” said Miller. Doherty officiated the wedding for the Millers in 2008.

“The State Department showed up at the Encinitas home of Sean Lake, Doherty’s best friend. Lake and Miller’s husband were working out at Crossfit together, and the news traveled fast,” said Miller. “We were shocked. We all knew something happened in Libya, but we thought Glen was in Tripoli.”

According to Miller, the 2016 film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi correctly portrayed the events that took Doherty from Tripoli to Benghazi the night of the attack. By the time Doherty arrived to help, U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and the U.S. Foreign Service’s IT specialist, Sean Smith, were already missing.

Miller says she and many others are still angered at the events that followed, long after Doherty was laid to rest. Congressional and news media investigations have debunked the official U.S. government’s story of the attack, and the death of the ambassador and the three Americans.

As reported by a Fox News investigation, Doherty was killed shortly upon his arrival by hostile mortar fire, along with former Navy SEAL and Imperial Beach resident Tyrone Woods, fighting from the rooftop of a supposedly secret CIA annex building.

In honor of Doherty’s memory, Miller is running the Boston Marathon on April 18, joining some of Doherty’s friends from his hometown in Gloucester, MA. Part of the proceeds from the Encinitas fundraiser will help Miller with her entry fee.

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