Somos Primos

FEBRUARY  2009
110th Issue Online

Editor: Mimi Lozano ©2000-9

Dedicated to Hispanic Heritage and Diversity Issues
 Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research

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to understand today, you have
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~ Pearl S. Buck

  Letters to the Editor : 

UNITED STATES

 Inauguration of the 44^th President of the United States
Barack Obama  


President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts as the 44th president of the United States of America at the Capitol January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images.  

Photo gallery: The Big Picture, News Stories in Photographs by Alan Taylor, January 21, 2009 http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/the_inauguration_of_president.html
Sent by Lupe Trujillo Fisher  AFISHER605@msn.com 

Impressions and photos of this historic event 
by Fidel R. Delgado 

Friends,

I had an opportunity to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama.  Here are my impressions of this historic event along with some photos.  Fidel

I went to the National Mall to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama. It was an incredible experience with over a million energized people in attendance.  The atmosphere of the moment was historic, life changing and totally uplifting.  People were so happy and overjoyed.   

Today I felt very patriotic knowing that our country is moving in a more rational direction where our new leaders are truly thinking about the welfare of the country and about our image abroad.  I feel good again about being an American.  The past administration soiled our country’s principles of democracy, fair play and honesty.  The change is so welcomed.  

Let me back track a little as to how my day started.   Initially I decided that I wanted to attend the inauguration and was determined to go on my bicycle.   It isn’t such a big challenge since I go to work regularly by bike a distance of 28 miles per day.  The challenge was the weather with the temperature at 24 degrees when I left home.   I was well prepared for the trip and I had on triple layers of clothes while using my heaviest bike jacket.  The north winds blowing in my face required an extreme effort.  By the time I arrived at the Jefferson Memorial my water bottle had turned to solid ice.  That’s cold. Burrrr!!   

"Fidel rode a bicycle 56 miles ( from and to ) his home to be a witness of this historic event.  His letter describes what he saw and felt during the event.  The pictures represent a very telling story of the mass of humanity, the moods of the people, and the number of family groups he saw.  Thanks Fidel 
for sharing."  Jose M. Pena 

Behind the Scenes with Mayor of Fullerton, California
Sharon Quirk 

HISPANICS BREAKING BARRIERS  

Part II

By

Mercy Bautista-Olvera

In the coming months this series “Hispanics Breaking Barriers” will present the contributions of Hispanics in United States government and leadership. Their contributions have improved not only the local community but the country as well.   Sadly, they have not always received their due recognition. Their struggles, stories, and accomplishments will by example, illustrate to our youth and to future generations that everything and anything is possible.   

Colorado Senator Ken Salazar
U.S. Secretary of Energy Federico Peña
Stanford University Professor of Law Mariano-Florentino “Tino” Cuéllar 
CEO of CRA/LA Chief Executive Officer Cecilia V. Estolano  

Ken Salazar  

D-Colorado Senator Ken Salazar has been selected as Secretary of the Interior. He is expected to balance the protection of Natural Resources; if confirmed by the Senate he would be the second Hispanic Secretary of the Interior. Salazar will head a vast agency whose bureaus manage water, fish, wildlife, mining, public lands and national parks and maintain federal relationships with Native American.  

Ken Salazar was born on March 2, 1955 in Alamoza , Colorado and raised in Manassa , Colorado . Salazar’s parents Enrique (Henry) Salazar and Emma Salazar served in World War II, his father as a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army and his mother in the War Department in Washington D.C., he has four brothers and three sisters, including older brother, Congressman John Salazar. Ken and his wife Hope Hernandez-Salazar have two daughters Melinda and Andrea and one granddaughter, Mireya.  

Salazar’s ancestry can be traced all the way to 12th century Spain . His family settled in the American West before the United States was a country. His ancestors have lived in the American Southwest since the 1500’s.    

Ken Salazar graduated form Centauri High School in Conejos County . In 1977, Salazar earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Colorado College ; in 1981, he received a Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan . In 1986, he became Chief Legal Counsel to then Governor Roy Romer. In 1993, Salazar received honorary doctorates of law from Colorado College and the University of Denver in 1999.

Colorado Governor Roy R. Romer appointed Salazar to his Cabinet as Director of the Department of Natural Resources; he authorized the Great Outdoors Colorado Amendment, which created a massive land conservation program and Youth in Natural Resources program to provide for environmental education in public school. Salazar established reforms that forced mining and oil operations protect the surrounding environment.

In 2003, as Colorado Attorney General Salazar led a well-publicized fight against a ballot measure that would have transferred water across the Rocky Mountains from western Colorado to Denver, he created several new branches of law enforcement, the Gang Prosecution Unit, the Environmental Crimes Unit, and the General Fugitive Prosecution Unit. Salazar strengthened the consumer protection and anti-fraud law as well to protect children against crime. He served as chairperson of the Conference of Western Attorneys General and received the "Profiles in Courage" award from his fellow state attorney generals for his dedication to preserving and promoting the rule of law.  

In 2004 Salazar was elected Senator of Colorado, he co-sponsored a bill in Congress to create a new land conservation system under the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management for permanently protecting 26 million acres of national monuments, wilderness and wild and scenic rivers.  

At the Senate Salazar has pressed for re-evaluating the military mission in Iraq  for a better national security interest and has worked to strengthen our military to ensure that we are able co confront emerging threats.

Federico Peña  

D-Colorado Secretary of Energy Federico Peña was selected to Obama Transition team to be on President-elect’s Barack Obama Advisory board panel.  Peña served as Obama’s National Campaign Co-chair.     

Federico Fabian Peña was born on March 15, 1947 in Laredo , Texas , the son of Gustavo Peña and Ana Lucila Farias-Peña; he was the third of six children. His father Gustavo was a broker for a Texas cotton manufacturer. Their parents taught their children to have good values of respectfulness, loyalty, and perseverance, they achieved their goals, all completed college; two became lawyers, two became teachers, and one a business accountant. Federico married Cindy Velasquez, previously married to Ellen Hart-Peña; Federico and Ellen have two daughters and a son, Nelia Joan, Cristina Lucila and Ryan.    

In 1965, Federico graduated with honors from St. Joseph ’s Academy High School . In 1969, Peña earned a B.A and a Jurist Doctorate School of Law from the University of Texas at Austin . In 1972, Peña moved to Colorado and became a practicing attorney, where his brother Alfredo was already practicing law, and together they opened a law office. In 1978, the 31-year-old Peña successfully ran for a seat in the Colorado General Assembly, Salazar held the position for two terms, than he served on the House Judiciary Legal Services, Rules, and Finance Committees. During his first term, Peña was named Outstanding House Democratic Freshman by the Colorado Social Action Committee. Peña was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1979-1983, becoming a Minority leader, than, a Democratic Party Leader for the Colorado General Assembly. 

Peña became the first Hispanic mayor of Denver (1983-1991), during his two terms as Mayor the city gained a major league baseball team, a new airport, a convention center, the arts center, a library, numerous parks and public buildings. Peña reversed the city’s budget deficit and led the revitalization of Denver ’s economy. 

In 1993-1996 President Bill Clinton selected Federico Peña for United States Secretary of Transportation than later as United States Secretary of Energy from

1997-1998. Peña was involved in several high-profile aviation issues, including foreign investment in US Air, he also promoted air safety issues such an investigation into Boeing 757 wing turbulence. During his second term, Peña promoted the idea of constructing a new airport as a way of making Denver into a major regional center of trade.   

As Secretary of Energy, (1997-1998) Peña developed the administration’s Comprehensive National Energy Strategy and oversaw the largest privatization in the history of the U.S. Government, the $3.65 billion sale of the Elk Hills Petroleum Reserve to Occidental Petroleum. [During President Bill Clinton’s,   Administration, Peña’s strategy for oil and gas development in the Caspian Sea region and was instrumental in supporting energy investment in Russia .] Peña traveled throughout the world to assist U.S. transportation companies in assessing global Markets. 

Mariano-Florentino “Tino” Cuéllar  

Professor of Law at Stanford University Mariano-Florentino “Tino” Cuéllar has been named one of the co-heads of the Obama transition’s Immigration Policy Working Group. The transition’s website states Cuéllar will be in charge of “working on a plan to implement the President-elect Obama commitment to fix the immigration system through legislative and executive actions that promote prosperity, enhance our security, strengthen families, and advance the rule of law.” Cuéllar brings experience in how organizations manage complex regulatory, migration, international security, and criminal justice problems.  

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar is the son of Dr. Alfredo Cuéllar and Graciela Cuéllar. He grew up in the Mexican border town of Calexico , ( Imperial County ). Cuéllar graduated from Calexico High School . In 1993, Cuéllar earned his Bachelor's Degree at Harvard University , his Masters’ Degree in Political Science at Stanford University in 1996, and Juris Doctorate at Yale Law School in 1997 and finished with a doctorate in Political Science at Stanford University in 2000 where he is now a full professor specializing in Administrative Law.  

Cuéllar has considerable experience in the federal government, and his academic work has focused on the analysis of complex organization and the way they administer and devise pubic policy,” “He’ll bring a very keen eye for organizational performance and a very innovative mind,” said Yale Law School Professor Peter H. Schuck. 

Cuéllar has worked as a Senior Adviser in President Bill Clinton’s Treasury Department and on countering domestic and international financial crime, improving border coordination, and enhancing anti-corruption measures.  

The San Jose Mercury News reported that during this year’s campaign, Cuéllar advised the Obama team “on a variety of issues, including immigration, criminal justice and Latino voter outreach.” Agencia EFE (Spanish News Agency) reported that Cuéllar has called the current immigration situation in the U.S. “a humanitarian crisis that we’ve ignored” and one that deserves an appropriate response.  

Cuéllar is on the Executive Committee of the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation as well as the Stanford International Initiative. In recent years, Cuéllar has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and before Congress on immigration policy and separation of powers. He served in U.S.-Japan Foundation and worked on initiatives for the reform of health and safety regulatory analysis. Cuéllar was selected to work in the Silicon Valley Blue Ribbon Task Force on Aviation Security as well. Cuellar is an elected member of the American Law Institute.      

Cecilia V. Estolano

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CRA/LA. Of the California Redevelopment Association Cecilia Valerie Estolano was appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency Review Team for President-elect Obama. Ms. Estolano is the Chief Executive Officer of the Community Redevelopment Agency in Los Angeles , California .  

Cecilia Valerie Estolano is the daughter of Rafael Estolano and Gloria Estolano,

Her ancestry comes from Mexico and Nicaragua . Cecilia’s paternal grandparents were Vicente Estolano and Juana Francisca Pernudi Granados, Cecilia’s paternal grandmother Juana Francisca was born in Nicaragua, (1903-1999). Ms. Estolano has one brother, Rafael and two sisters, Gloria and Isabel.  

Ms. Estolano is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law and Holds an M.A. in Urban Planning from the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA. She received her undergraduate degree in Social Studies with honors from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges.  

Ms. Estolano served as Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley’s Environmental Policy Advisor from 1991-1993. Estolano’s public sector background includes experience at the local state and federal level. During 1993 to 1995, she served as Senior Policy Advisor with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, she advised the Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation on mobile source regulations on state and local relations and California air quality issues. She served on the California Coastal Commission from 1999-2002 as an appointee of the Speaker of the California Assembly.  

Ms. Estolano was counsel in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She focused on land use, zoning, redevelopment and municipal law and environmental regulatory issues. From 2001-2004 Ms. Estolano served as Special Assistant City Attorney for land use, economic development and environment for Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo.  She presided over a major restructuring of the office to create Real Estate and Economic Development, public finance and environmental matters for the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency. Ms. Estolano was the City’s lead attorney on all major land use, real estate and economic development projects, she is a top negotiator, achieved a landmark settlement in Clean Water Act litigation brought  by the U.S. Department of Justice.  

In 2001, Los Angeles Business Journal named Ms. Estolano one of “20 Up-and-coming Women in the Latino Community.” In 2003, California Lawyer named Ms. Estolano one of five “High Performing Environmental Lawyers.”   

Ms. Estolano served on Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Transition Team; she served on boards of directors, Lambda Legal, the California League of Conservation Voters and Heal the Bay. She has served on the California Committee of Advisors to the Trust for Pubic Land , the Advisory Board of the Sustainable Cities Program at the University of Southern California .  

Ms. Estolano is currently on the Board of Directors of the California Redevelopment Association, a statewide organization comprised of 350 redevelopment agencies that provides information on legislative proposals and administrative regulations and professional development services to redevelopment agencies throughout the state of California . Ms. Estolano is a lecturer at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, where she teaches courses on urban planning.  

Honorable Judge Cruz Reynoso

Honorable Judge Cruz Reynoso, Professor Emeritus of law at the University of California , USC Davis School of Law has been selected to assist with the Transition Team for President-elect Obama. Former California Supreme Justice Cruz Reynoso will help lead a review of key federal departments, agencies, commissions in the White House, providing information needed to make policy, budget and personnel decisions prior to Obama’s January 20, 2009 inauguration. Honorable Cruz Reynoso was the first Hispanic to serve on the California Supreme Court.

Cruz Reynoso, the son of Mexican immigrants, was born on May 2, 1931 in Brea, California. One of 11 children, he worked together with his family in the fields and orchards as farm workers when he was 9 years old.  He received an Associate of Arts Degree from Fullerton College and a Bachelor’s Degree from Pomona College in Claremont , California . Reynoso served in the Army from 1953 to 1955. He earned a law degree from UC Berkeley and studied Constitutional Law at the National University of Mexico in 1958-59 under a Ford Foundation Fellowship. Reynoso started his career in private law practice in 1959 and by the following year, appointed Deputy Director of the California Fair Employment

Practices Commission. He has also served as Director of the California Rural Legal Assistance, and Professor of Law at the University Of New Mexico School Of Law and a professor at UCLA. After law school, Reynoso settled with his wife Jeannene in El Centro , California , where he built a private law practice and a reputation for fairness, integrity and results that led to prestigious appointments in Sacramento and Washington .   

At the federal level, he served as associate General Counsel to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission and as a member of the Select Commission on Immigration and Human Rights. In the latter role, he participated in the first-ever federal hearings on the civil rights of Mexican Americans. In Sacramento , California , he also served as Staff Secretary to Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown.  

His publications have included articles on cultural diversity, educational equity, affirmative action and Cesar Chavez.  “Hispanics in the Criminal Justice System, a chapter in “An Agenda for the Twenty-First Century: Hispanics in the United States .” In 1982, California Governor Jerry Brown appointed Reynoso to the California Supreme Court. Reynoso is internationally known as a civil rights leader. In 2000, former President Bill Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. The UC Davis School of Law has established the Cruz & Jeannene Reynoso Scholarship for Legal Access to help students of all backgrounds with financial aid attending law school. In 2003, students organized the La Raza Law Students Association and generous donors established the Cruz Reynoso Social Justice Fellowship that helps Latino law students, attending the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) engage public interest work as a summer interns. Reynoso retired in 2006. On September 15, 2007, Honorable Cruz Reynoso was honored with the UC Davis School of Law Medal, the highest tribute by the campus, for a lifetime achievement.  

Remembering Dr. Clotilde Garcia
by Wanda Daisy Garcia

Representative Herrero Files Legislation Honoring Dr. Hector P. Garcia

Setting the Record Straight: 
First Hispanic President of a U.S. University
Louis Hubbard y Mendez

Portraits of the 44 Presidents of the United States

White House new Spanish language website

The White House has put in place a new Spanish language website. 
Read: Obama - en Espanol http://www.whitehouse.gov/spanish

Bienvenidos a la nueva página en español de WhiteHouse.gov. En las semanas y meses venideros añadiremos más y más información en español, así que visite nuestra página con frecuencia. Mientras tanto, puede ver los artículos en español en la lista que aparece abajo.

Contacto: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Sent by Juan Marinez marinezj@anr.msu.edu

Need help reaching your Senator?  Call the Capitol Operator at (202) 224-3121 and they will transfer the call to your Senator.  You can also find out who your Senators are at: http://nclr.capwiz.com/nclr/dbq/officials/

From: TransBorder Project [mailto:americas@ciponline.org] 
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 4:39 PM
To: marinezj@msu.edu
Subject: Good News from Nashville: Diversity Not Uniformity | Tom Barry

Economic Times Especially Tough on the Poor and Powerless
Hero Street, U.S.A.
By Marcus Wilson 

Editor:  Marc is the author of the new book, Hero Street U.S.A.  published by 

Ricardo Montalban 

RICARDO MONTALBAN, 
LIFE MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 21, 1949

Photo gallery sent by Mercy Bautista-Olvera
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ricardo_montalban-pg,0,6286223.photogallery?index=10

'Fantasy Island' star Ricardo Montalban dies at 88

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-montalban15-2009jan15,0,4189863.story

Ricardo Montalban Los Angeles Times Obituary by Lorenza Muñoz
January 15, 2009

NATIONAL ISSUES

Texas Department of Transportation Vehicle
Used to Carry Drugs

A Texas DOT vehicle was stopped by an alert DPS Trooper on I-10 between San Antonio and Seguin , TX? 

At this point it was not determined who was responsible for cloning a Texas DOT vehicle and using it for for smuggling drugs. 

The bags of drugs were stored both inside and outside of the truck.

The duration of time whereby this strategy was being used to transport drugs has not been determined.

Sent by rudysgt@verizon.net 

Mexico sentences migrant smuggler to 60 years. MEXICO CITY (AP, 12/28/08)

Ofrece Obama apoyo a Calderón contra el narcotráfico  

El Siglo de Torreón | Ofrece Obama apoyo a Calderón contra el narcotráfico  
Por: AP/EFE/ Washington, EU. CONVERSAN DURANTE CASI 2 HORAS  
Inicio :: Nacional 12 de ene, 2009  

El presidente Felipe Calderón y el presidente electo Barack Obama se reunieron el lunes en un almuerzo de trabajo en el Instituto Cultural Mexicano en Washington, donde analizaban dos problemas críticos para México y Estados Unidos: narcotráfico e inmigración. (Fotografía de AP)

El presidente electo de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, expresó su compromiso para trabajar de manera estrecha con México, especialmente en temas como la seguridad y la lucha contra el narcotráfico.

El presidente Felipe Calderón y el presidente electo Barack Obama se reunieron el lunes en un almuerzo de trabajo en el Instituto Cultural Mexicano en Washington, donde analizaban dos problemas críticos para México y Estados Unidos: narcotráfico e inmigración. (Fotografía de AP)

Incluso Obama aseguró que el gobierno que encabezará está dispuesto a ayudar a México en esa batalla contra el crimen organizado, que enfrenta el país.

Ambos políticos se reunieron en la biblioteca Matías Romero del Instituto Cultural de México, en esta ciudad, donde Obama reconoció que México es un país líder en Latinoamérica.

Obama, que habló de pie junto a Calderón en uno de los salones del Instituto, sonrió al prometer que, pese a las "tensiones en los últimos años" en las relaciones con América Latina, su mandato abrirá "una nueva página, un nuevo capítulo" en ese ámbito.

Con respecto a México, el presidente electo insistió en que el país vecino es "un aliado firme", con el que EU. mantiene una "alianza fuerte" que durante su mandato será "aún más fuerte".

Entre otros aspectos, Obama citó la colaboración con México en materia de energía y medio ambiente.

Su Gobierno, aseguró Obama, estará "preparado desde el primer día" para mantener una "fuerte relación" con México.

En su conversación, de casi dos horas y que comenzó con un almuerzo a base de sopa de tortillas, lenguado y filete con salsa de cilantro, los dos mandatarios abordaron "de manera general" cuestiones como el comercio, la inmigración o la violencia procedente del narcotráfico que afecta a México.

Obama alabó el "extraordinario valor" del mandatario mexicano en su lucha contra el narcotráfico, mientras que Calderón sostuvo que la conversación de hoy representa "el principio de una extraordinaria época de cooperación y de relación" entre ambos países.

Calderón indicó que ha pedido a Obama una alianza estratégica entre ambos gobiernos para afrontar problemas comunes, principalmente la seguridad y la lucha contra el crimen organizado.

Tras el almuerzo el jefe del Estado mexicano expuso que "entre más seguro esté México, más seguro estará Estados Unidos", al tiempo que subrayó la necesidad de enfrentar juntos temas en el ámbito económico.

Calderón fue el anfitrión de Obama en el almuerzo, al término del cual en un mensaje, aseguró que este primer encuentro permitirá una relación más estrecha y es el inicio de una extraordinaria época en las relaciones entre México y Estados Unidos.

Sent by Mercy Bautista Olvera 

Another Major Anti-Latino Hate Attack Makes the News

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 

More Latino immigrants seeking office back home

Catholic Church Launches New Campaign for Immigrants

http://www.northlandposter.com/catalog/cd13.html <  Posters on Immigration Rights 

Hispanics and the New Administration: 
Immigration Slips as a Priority; Latinos Optimistic About Obama

Undocumented in America,
 interviews with Jesse Diaz & Javier Rodriguez

ACTION ITEMS

"A Class Apart" Documentary
Defend the Honor
Find Out Who Else Supports this Initiative a National Museum of the American Latino
A Forgotten Injustice
VA officials assist veterans with health care costs
Juan Reynosa's Environmental Mission: You Voted: Now What?

 “A Class Apart" documentary to air on Feb. 23  

Ken Burns spoke on Visions of Race

Find Out Who Else Supports this Initiative
A National Museum of the American Latino

Loiza a Osun by Antonio Broccoli Porto

A National Museum of the American Latino could create a home for the historical artifacts, images, and personal stories documenting over 500 years of American Latino contributions to the United States. The Museum would serve as an educational tool for the thousands who visit the museum each year, as well as instilling a sense of pride in the Latino community today and in the future.

Ask Congress to Fully Fund the National Museum of the American Latino Commission 

One key way for you to help the Latino museum effort is urging the 111th Congress to fully fund and provide the National Museum of the American Latino Commission the resources necessary to complete its work.

The enacted bill authorizes $3.2 million over two years for the Commission but that does not guarantee that Congress will actually fund the Commission at this level. We encourage you to send a letter of support, or issue a resolution of support if it is more applicable to the work of your organization, and ask your congressional leaders to fully fund the Latino museum commission. You may also call the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations at (202) 225-2771 or the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations at (202) 224-7363 to voice your opinion. 

For more information on the legislation and appropriations effort, please contact Melody Gonzales at (202) 225-6235 or email at melody.gonzales@mail.house.gov. Feel free to visit www.americanlatinomuseum.org to view letters that have already been submitted.

A Forgotten Injustice

Juan Reynosa's Environmental Mission: You Voted: Now What?
By Kristina Rizga

United States National Parks Services

Editor: In the fall a documentary series on our National Parks will be aired on PBS stations. The historical information in this section should help in evaluating the series, in terms of exclusion or inclusion of Hispanics.  Burns history of exclusion of the Latino presence is well documented in his works.

The statement below by Burns can be used as a yardstick: 

Note:  Burns does not say explorers or colonizers who first saw them  . .  but settlers.  This limits who he would HAVE to include.  By this exclusion, Burns does not have to make reference to the early presence of the Spanish, instead he can focus on those who took over areas that had been previously settled by the Spanish. It should be our task to question why the presence of tribal groups were included, but not the contributions of the European Spanish.  Both groups are our ancestors, and both groups contributed to the heritage and history of the United States. 

Thank you to Gil Armijo and William Tapia for sharing their family connections to the Parks systems.

http://www.unm.edu/~clahr/scrc.html

The Spanish Colonial Research Center (SCRC), publisher of CLAHR, was established by the National Park Service (NPS) in 1986 in partnership with the University of New Mexico. Directed by Dr. Joseph P. Sánchez, the center facilitates the research requirements of Spanish Colonial Heritage Sites of the National Park Service as well as other pertinent local, state, and regional entities. 

The center also cooperates with research organizations in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, and other Latin American countries to further the study of colonial Luso-Hispano history. 

The SCRC has collected thousands of microfilmed colonial documents, maps, architectural plans, and sketches from Spanish and Mexican archives. This invaluable collection provides an essential source of information for those interested in colonial Latin American history. 

Dr Joseph Sanchez, is Un Cabellero baja la Orden de Isabella La Catholica.  
He the the Director of the National Parks for Hispanic Historical dept.  

Gabaldon National Campground, Arizona

TAPIA  Park, a California State Park

BUSINESS

Lydia Villa-Komaroff
Breaking Barriers: World-Renowned Molecular Biologist Blazes New Trails
Jan. 7, 2009, Joshua Molina--Associate Editor, Hispanic Business Magazine

Border Businesses Thrive amid Recession, Violence
Commerce News, January 13, 2009

Living Under the Trees
A photoessay by David Bacon
From Contexts, journal of the American Sociological Association

See also the photodocumentary on indigenous migration to the US Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006) 
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4575 

See also The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)  http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9989.html 

David Bacon, Photographs and Stories  http://dbacon.igc.org 
Sent by Dr. Carlos Muñoz, Jr.  cmjr@berkeley.edu

EDUCATION

First Hispanic in the nation to be named as Chancellor 
of a University system

The Hispanic Development Fund of Greater Kansas City

BILINGUAL EDUCATION

BOOKS

Wickenburg Hispanic Pioneer Families 
by Julia Macias Brooks and Christine Maxa

Wickenburg was founded after the Gold strike in 1863 of Vulture Mine by Henry Wickenburg, the town founder.  While the more flamboyant pages of Arizona history like to linger around Wickenburg’s gold mining days and the colorful characters and stories of the time, some of the town of Wickenburg’s most memorable moments of courage, faith, and public service come from its familias. Convinced they could find a better life than what the social inequities that roiled before the Mexican Revolution could offer, Hispanic pioneers traveled from their Sonora, Mexico homes to this northern reach of the Hispanic ranching frontier.  Authoress Julia Macias Brooks' great-great grandfather Ramon Macias arrived in 1857 to establish his 6M Ranch and she states, "our family has roots in those that followed by marriages."

Wickenburg Hispanic Pioneer Families – Nuestras Memorias celebrates Wickenburg’s rich cultural heritage with photographs of and anecdotes about the Mexican pioneers that helped tame this desert mining town, as well as their descendants that still live there today. These homesteaders established ranches along the fertile Hassayampa River; labored at the Vulture Mine; donated land for the town’s first school, St. Anthony Padua Catholic Church and the cemetery; and celebrated life with family and friends. These are the people who helped make Wickenburg the culturally rich town it is today. Meet the people, their stories, the legends, and the traditions that make Wickenburg the kind of place where people put down roots to stay.  

This city which was founded after the Gold strike in 1863 of Vulture Mine by Henry Wickenburg, our town founder.  

Size: 11 x 11 · Soft Cover ·160 Pages, Perfect Bound · Saddle Stitched
ISBN 978-0-9790814-1-5  Price $25.00
Contact Information: www.jamaxpublishers.com 602-370-7473
Jamax Publishers Press · P.O. Box 12054, Prescott, Arizona 86304
Contact authors, Julia Macias Brooks and Christine Maxa at: TIA@W3AZ.NET

Moctezuma's Children: Aztec Royalty Under Spanish Rule, 1520-1700
By Donald E. Chipman

The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes, 
Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga

University of Arizona Press

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CULTURE

Romero String Quartet

Channeling Mexican pop stars
By Matt O'Brien 
Contra Costa Times, 01/06/2009 

BAY POINT — By day, she cleans other people's houses. By night, Juanita Figueroa is one of the reigning stars of the East Bay's growing Mexican karaoke scene.

The rest of her life has become a nonstop rehearsal for her three-nights-a-week role as karaoke maven at Los Gallitos restaurant.

"I am always practicing," she said. "In the car, in the shower, while I'm working."
On a recent evening, as a curtain behind her shimmered with a disco-light glow, the 51-year-old Concord resident was the first of the night to take up the microphone. She approached the stage from her dinner table like a newly confident wallflower, standing still as she launched into a sad, romantic ballad.

The lyrics scrolled along a TV screen above the restaurant's food counter, but she rarely needed to read them. Diners glanced her way, continued their conversations and joined in applause when she finished.  "It's like a second home for me," Figueroa said. 

When owner Jorge Huezo opened the Mexican-Salvadoran restaurant about two years ago, making savory pupusas was on his agenda — karaoke was not. But conversations with Figueroa, a customer, helped spark an experiment that has transformed the restaurant into a casual weekend cabaret that attracts a multigenerational crowd. The venue, formerly a diner called Aunt Catty's Farm House, sits next to a Mexican-style supermarket on Willow Pass Road. 

Dressed up in wingtip shoes, Pittsburg gardener Francisco Guevara is one of the night's regulars. Guevara, who moved to California from El Salvador a decade ago, said he happened upon Los Gallitos by accident one night. 

He returned with enough confidence to sing "La Mujer Que Sone", a love song by Mexican pop group Los Temerarios. Now, he visits Los Gallitos about three nights a week, but even that has not satisfied his urge to sing. He bought a karaoke machine at a store several weeks ago so he can practice at home, he said.

Concord nanny Aida Saldate grew up loving to sing. As a youth, she joined a traditional orchestra in her hometown of Hermosillo, Mexico. These days, she can be found hopping from one Contra Costa County karaoke joint to another — other local venues that cater to Spanish-language tunes include Bay Point's nearby El Guamuchilito and Concord's La Cabana on Wednesday nights.

On a recent night at Los Gallitos, Saldate sang a showstopping ranchera by Mexican singer Alicia Villareal.

Los Gallitos differs from typical karaoke bars in the variety of activity that follows its amateur singers. When the songs are finished, the lights dim and a fresh crowd arrives — twentysomethings hustling through the entrance and past a Christmas tree to take up the restaurant's empty booths and tables. They crowd the dance floor, bouncing to the sounds of cumbia and banda.

Later, they, too, will move to the sidelines — at least on Fridays, when the restaurant invites a musical comedy trio of transgender performers who call themselves the Queens of the Night. The group's leader, Tony "Jacqueline" Alvarado, evokes both Rocio Durcal and Cyndi Lauper, wearing a striped tank top, flowered pants and purple sandals.

"Here the people pay more attention to the show," Alvarado said, preparing backstage with lipstick in one hand and a glass of Michelada — beer and Clamato —in the other. The mostly straight but open-minded crowd pays them a lot of respect, Alvarado said.
For Figueroa, nights at Los Gallitos are frequently a family affair. Her son, Amaury Contreras, 29, serves as the karaoke jockey, managing the sound system and introducing guests. But he is also one of the venue's top stars, winning first place in the restaurant's last karaoke tournament.

With his dulcet voice, mustache, boots and cowboy hat, Contreras regularly channels his favorite singer, the superstar crooner Vicente Fernandez, whose Tres Potrillos ranch Contreras used to live near while growing up in Mexico.

Figueroa's daughter, Diane Aguilar, 19, also shows up some nights. She stays away from the microphone but enjoys watching her mom.

As the night progressed, the seemingly mild-mannered Figueroa moved from slow ballads to brash dirges by Paquita la del Barrio that had her strutting across the restaurant.
"I'm proud of her, you know," Aguilar said as her mother took to the stage again. "She's doing her thing. I'm just watching. I'm proud. She's proud."

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LITERATURE

RAZAS Y CASTAS
0F  RACES AND CASTES

The population of New Spain at the end 
of the 16^th Century was composed of a confusing mix of races.  Although the Indios had power in superior numbers they did not enjoy the social and political influence they deserved, owing to the state of abjection and  misfortunes they encountered, and by the profound divisions and antagonisms between the kingdoms and tribes that originated in the times before the conquest. 

 In a world that recognizes and reveres the sacred and noble principle of the universal fraternity, and when the progress of civilization has established the principle of equality before the law as the base of institutions among all peoples and beliefs, 
the division of the people into races and sub-species is, perhaps, unnecessary in 
either religion or in politics.  But for the 
study of the formation of a nationality, accuracy requires one to refer back to the cold and bare axioms of zoological philosophy, and to the doctrines of the young but robust science of anthropology.

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Confusa mescal de razas componía la población de Nueva España al terminar el siglo XVI, y aunque por su número era superior la de los indios, sin embargo, por el estado de objeción en que por sus desgracias se encontraba, y por las profundas divisiones y antagonismos entre reinos y tribus que traían su origen desde tiempos anteriores á la Conquista, no gozaba de la influencia social y política que debía tener. 

The names the castas received, according to their sources were these:  

Postscript:  Caste paintings

Of Mestizo and India, Coyote    

(In other caste lists, including Riva Palacio’s,  a coyote is Spaniard and India, and in still other tabulations a coyote is a mix with African.   The Spaniards used the animal coyote to signify a racial mix because they, at first, believed a coyote was a mix of a dog and a wolf, in the manner that a horse and a donkey makes a mule, thus the origin of the Spaniard’s racial term, mulato, or mulata..)

  The caste paintings are one of the only sources that historians of Colonial Mexico have found of depictions of ordinary people in daily life.  Instead, there are portraits of Viceroys, Bishops, and others of the upper classes, who are depicted in proud posture, which contrasts with many caste paintings.  The scenes of home life, though often endearing, as with the father shown here trying to calm his crying baby with a display of feathers, are just as often crude, as with the mother cleaning baby’s bottom.  There is no known painting of the wealthy showing a baby’s bottom being wiped, nor do the pictures of     
the elite show  a mother and             Of Mestiza and Mulato, cuadroon, a..k.a. quadroon.
father in a fist fight while their 
child cries, a common scene in caste paintings of a Spaniard with a black, the above sample of this mix being an exception.                                  
 
   A framed set of a dozen caste paintings of assorted combinations hangs in the National Museum of History in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City.  Passing through the museum a father was overheard calling to his son of about eight years of age to view the painting, “Come over here and see what we are.”

ANTI-SPANISH LEGENDS

LA LEYENDA NEGRA/THE BLACK LEGEND

HISTORICAL DISTORTION, DEFAMATION, SLANDER, LIBEL, AND STEREOTYPING OF HISPANICS  

By Felipe de Ortego y Gasca

Scholar in Residence and  Chair,Department of Chicana / Chicano and Hemispheric Studies, 
Western New Mexico University;  

 [In America’s Defense--Number 7 in a series on La Leyenda Negra]

Given the circumstances in Europe, by the beginning of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 2^nd term in 1936 Americans were pretty sure the country was headed for war. By 1940 the repatriation of Mexicans in the United States had eased up. From 1936 to 1940 vital stakeholders in the economy of the country saw the necessity for a larger workforce especially for jobs of last resort. Part of that larger workforce would include Mexicans, so much so that in 1942 the United States and Mexico signed a workforce agreement that brought Mexican workers to the United States under the label of the “Bracero Program”—the Helping Hand Program which ran from August 1942 to 1964 employing 4 million Mexican workers in the United States. Braceros worked essentially as farm workers though they worked in a number of other areas due to the labor shortage engendered by the war. Despite the aura of goodwill this program emanated, the presence of these braceros in the United States fomented increased antipathies toward Mexicans and Mexican Americans.

With so many Americans involved in the war effort (troops and manufacturing) the harvests of America were in the hands of Mexicans. In 1942 Mexico declared war on Germany and by war’s end had aerial and ground forces in the Pacific. Counting the number of Mexican Braceros who stayed in the United States after the end of the Bracero Program and the number of Mexicans who managed to stay in the United States despite the repatriation efforts of the federal government during the 30s to return them to Mexico added to the original population of the Conquest Generation and you have the foundation population of Mexican Americans today.

From 1940 to 1945 American Hispanics played a crucial role in America’s defense, especially Mexican Americans. Of the 16 million Americans who served in the armed forces during World War II, almost a million of them were Hispanics, mostly Mexican Americans. As a group, Hispanic members of the armed forces won more medals of honor during World War II than any other group. Hispanics served in the Army, the Army Air Corps, the Navy, the Marines, the Coast Guard, and the Merchant Marine. They were pilots, navigators, bombardiers, gunners. On the home front they were Air Rid Wardens, led War Bond Drives, served at UWSO’s, handed out donuts and coffee to American GI’s at train stations and military bases, scored of Hispanic mothers placed Gold Stars on their windows, and dutifully covered their windows at night in compliance with “blackout” instructions.

Across the country, American Hispanics played crucial roles in the victory of World War II by working in defense plants building planes, tanks, jeeps, and other military equipment. In Pittsburgh, Mexican American women from the Ohio Valley communities of Mexican Americans built gliders in the Heinz plant which converted its ketchup machines to the war effort. From the founding of the nation, American Hispanics have served in the American armed forces and have responded to American crises in overwhelming numbers. More than half the complement of the Rough Riders with Teddy Roosevelt were Mexican Americans. The first draftee of World War II was Aguilar Despart, a Mexican American from Los Angeles. Among the first casualties of World War II after Pearl Harbor was Private Jose P. Martinez killed at the battle of Attu in the Aleutians, an action for which he received the Medal of Honor posthumously.

Despite this outpouring of patriotism, in June of 1943 Mexican Americans were fleeing for their lives in Los Angeles in what came to be known nationally as the Zoot-Suit Riots. American sailors and marines began beating up Mexican Americans who were dressed in zoot suits, a sartorial style popular with Mexican Americans (called Pachucos) during World War II. Rationalizations to the contrary, the riots were sparked by the roots of the Black Legend. Instead of commenting on the race-based reasons for the riots, Lt Ayres of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department commented on the uses of knives by Mexican Americans by asserting that “the Caucasian, especially the Anglo-Saxon, when engaged in fighting, particularly among  youths, resorts to fisticuffs and may at times kick each other, which is considered unsportive, but this Mexican element considers all that to be a sign of weakness and all he knows and feels is a desire to use a knife or some lethal weapon. In other words, his desire is to kill, or at least let blood” (Ralph Guzman, “The Function of Ideology in the Process of Political Socialization: an Example in Terms of the Mexican American People Living in the Southwest,” Unpublished manuscript, 1966, 35).

Incredibly, Ayres’ report was duly endorsed “as an intelligent statement of the psychology of the Mexican people, particularly the youths” (36). His report to the Grand Jury stressed that Mexican youths are motivated to crime by certain biological or “racial” characteristics.

Just as racism was responsible for the mass detention of Japanese Americans in 1942, racism bred by the Black Legend was responsible for the outbreak of Anglo hostilities toward Mexican Americans during World War II. In 1942 Mexican American youngsters in Los Angeles were convicted on fabricated evidence in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case, serving almost 2 years in San Quentin before their convictions were reversed by the California District Court of Appeals. Carey McWilliams who served as Chairman of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee described the proceedings as “more of a ceremonial lynching than a trial in a court of justice” (North From Mexico, 1948, 231).

During World War II in the Hispanic Southwest—in Texas particularly—Mexican Americans were forced to sit in theater sections reserved for “Mexicans”—it didn’t matter if the “Mexicans” were in American uniforms (George I. Sanchez, “Pachucos in the Making,” Common Ground, Autumn 1943). Anglos sat in the middle, “Mexicans” on the sides, and African Americans in the balcony. In Texas a Mexican American G.I. tells the following story: We went to a restaurant to eat, we sat down and the whole thing you know, and started ordering. The waitress asked me if I was Italian. I said, "No, no I'm not, I'm Mexican." And she said, "Well I'm sorry, sir, we don't serve Mexicans" (David López, “Saving Private Atzlan: Preserving the History of Latino Service in Wartime,” Diálogo Magazine, Center for Latino Research, Fall, 2005:9).

In September of 1945, Private Benigno Aguirre, in uniform, was brutally beaten by “white rednecks” in San Angelo, Texas, and left for dead. When Mexican Americans sought help for Private Aguirre from the San Angelo community the response was “Aguirre is Mexican. Ask Mexicans for help” (David Montejano, “The Beating of Private Aguirre” in Mexican Americans in World War II edited by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, 2005, 41). Fifty years later Benigno Aguirre could only say, “estaba carajo en esos dias” (58).

Despite their inordinate numbers in the military, Mexican Americans encountered difficulty in finding employment during the war. Anglos were placed ahead of them in jobs for which they were qualified. Some state employment agencies considered certain jobs “out of bounds” for Mexican Americans (125). Community recreation centers with swimming pools were closed to Mexican Americans. Not until 1948 were the public swimming pools of Fort Stockton, Texas, open for Mexican Americans.

It’s relatively easy to dismiss out of hand these incidents as part of the racial heritage of the United States, but given the historical context of the Black Legend, one discerns the grip of the Black Legend in the pattern of these incidents. At the end of World War II in 1945, Gonzalo Mendez sued Orange Grove school districts over school boundaries that created de facto segregation. In 1946, the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff, and in 1947 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the California decision, making Mendez v. Westminster a precedent for Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. In the trial testimony, the defending Superintendent characterized Mexican American children as inferior in “personal hygiene”, “scholastic ability”, and “economic outlook” ( Vicki L. Ruiz, Nuestra America: Latino History as United States History, Journal of American History, December 2006, 669).

It has taken years of litigation for Hispanics to chip away at the vestiges of the black legend in America.

ortegop@wnmu.edu

MILITARY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT HEROES

Latinos/Latinas - Ultimate Sacrifice

Part XII

By

 Mercy Bautista-Olvera

Lt General Elwood "Pete" Quesada

General Wainright and Pvt. Eusebio Reyes

Honor the Fallen Hispanics/Honra a nuestros Caidos.

The Honor Roll of Fallen Hispanics since 2001, Global War on Terrorism. |
This list is complied from The Department of Defense, The Military Times  
(Army, Navy and Air Force),  the Iraq War Heroes, Military City and the Washington Post web sites. (Copyright materials to be use only for personal non commercial use.)

Credits: http://www.defenselink.mil/casualty.pdf       
              http://www.iraqwarheroes.com  
              http://www.militarycity.com/valor/honor.html  
              http://projects.washingtonpost.com/fallen  (Faces of the fallen.)

The last two links have photos, BIOS, Newspaper articles and videos..  
Extracted and Compiled by Rafael Ojeda: rsnojeda@aol.com  Tacoma,WA  (20 pages  567 names)  

2002: (2)  
APR 15,2002  Army SGT 1^st Class Daniel A. Romero age: 30, Lafayette, CO  Quandahar, Afghanistan NOV 07,2002 Army Spc Pedro Lazaro  Pena-Suarez  35, Miami, FL  Kuwait

2003: (72) |
FEB 23,2003 Army SPC Rodrigo Gonzalez-Garza   26, (Nuevo Leon,MX)  San Antonio, TX   Kuwait MAR 21, 2003 Marine LCPL Jose Gutierrez  22, Los Angeles, CA  Umm Qasar, Iraq (Guatemala)  
MAR 23, 2003 USAF 1^st Lt Tamara Archuleta 23, Las Lunas, NM  Afghanistan  
MAR 23, 2003 Army Pvt Ruben Estrella-Soto 18, (Cuidad Jaurez,MX) El Paso TX  Nasiriyah, Iraq  
MAR 23, 2003 Army CWO  Johnny Villareal-Mata 36, Pecos, Amarillo, TX Nasiriyah, Iraq  
MAR 23, 2003 Army Pfc Lori Ann Piestewa 23, Tuba City, AZ (Hopi Tribe & Mexican) 
                          Nasiriyah, Iraq  
MAR 23, 2003 Marine Cpl Jose A. Garibay 21,  (Jalisco,MX) Costa Mesa, CA Nasiriyah, Iraq  
MAR 23, 2003 Marine Cpl Jorge A. Gonzalez 20, Los Angeles, CA (Rialto) Nasiriyah, Iraq.  
MAR 23, 2003 Army Edward J. Anguiano 24, Brownville, TX  Iraq  (MIA until Apr 24,2003)  
MAR 25, 2003 Marine Pfc Francisco A. Martinez-Flores 21 Los Angeles, CA  (Native of Mexico)
                          Eupharates River, Iraq  
MAR 27, 2003 Marine Cpl Robert Marcus Rodriguez 21, Queen, NY (Puerto Rico)  
                         Eupharates River NW of Nasiriyah, Iraq.  
MAR 27, 2003 Marine Lcpl Jesus A. Suarez del Solar 20, Escondido, CA (Native of Mexico) Iraq.               MAR 28, 2003 Marine Sgt Fernando Padillo-Ramirez 36, Yuma, AZ (Native of Mexico) 
                          Nasiriyah, Iraq  J(MIA until Apr 10,2003)  
MAR 29, 2003 Army Sgt Orlando Morales 33, Manati, Puerto Rico  Afghanistan  
MAR 29, 2003 Army Pfc Diego Fernando Rincon 19, Conyer, GA (Native of Columbia) Najaf Iraq. |
MAR 30, 2003 Marine Capt Aaron J. Conterras 31, Sherwood, OR (HMLA-169 pilot)                          Southern Iraq.  
APR 02,2003 Army Msgt George A. Fernandez 36, El Paso, TX  Northern Iraq.  
APR 03, 2003 Army Ssgt Nino D. Livaudais 23, Ogden, UT  Iraq.  
APR 03, 2003 Marine Cpl Erik H. Silva 22, Chula Vista, CA  Iraq.  
APR 04, 2003 Marine Sgt Duane R. Rios  25,  Griffith, IN  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 07, 2003 Marine Lcpl Andrew Julian Aviles 18, Palm Beach, FL  Central Iraq.

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APR 07, 2003 Marine Cpl Jesus Martin Antonio Medellin   21, Ft Worth, TX  Central Iraq.  
APR 08, 2003 Army Pvt Juan Guadalupe Garza, Jr 20, Temperance MI (San Benito,TX) Baghdad.  
APR 11, 2003 Marine Ssgt Riayan A. Tejeda 20, New York, NY  (Native of Dominican Republic)                         NE Baghdad, Iraq. (Posthumously Citizenship).  
APR 12, 2003 Marine Cpl Jesus A. Gonzalez 22, Indio, CA (Native of MX) Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 13, 2003 Army Spc Gil Mercardo 25, Paterson, NJ (Isabela, PR)      Iraq  
APR 14, 2003 Marine Cpl Armando Ariel Gonzalez 26, Hileach, FL (Native of Cuba) Southern Iraq.  
APR 17, 2003 Army Cpl John T. Rivero 23, Tampa, FL  Kuwait.  
APR 25, 2003 Army 1^st Lt Osbaldo Orozco 26, Delano, CA   Iraq  
APR 28, 2003 Army First Sgt Joe J. Garza 43, Robstown, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 28, 2003 USAF A1C Raymond Losano 24, Del Rio, TX  Afghanistan.  
MAY 12, 2003 Marine PFC Jose Franci  Gonzalez-Rodriguez 19, Norwalk, CA  Iraq.  
MAY 18, 2003 Marine Cpl Douglas Jose Marenco Reyes  28, Chino, CA  Smawah, Iraq.  
MAY 28, 2003 Marine Cpl Jose Amancio Perez III 22, San Diego, TX  Taji, Iraq.  
JUN 03, 2003 Army Sgt Atanacio Haro Marin 27, Baldwin Park, CA  Balad, Iraq.  
JUN 06, 2003 Army Sgt Melvin Y. Mora  27, Columbia, Missouri  
JUN 26, 2003 Army PR National Guard Spc Richard P. Orengo 32, Toa Alto, PR Najir, Iraq.                          (Bronze Star & Purple Heart)  
JUN 27, 2003 Army Cpl Tomas Sotelo, Jr 20, Houston, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUN 28, 2003 Army Spc Kelvin E. F. Gutierrez 21, Anasco,  PR  Orgun-E,  Afghanistan  
JUL 09, 2003 Army Melissa Valles 26, Eagle Pass, TX  Balad, Iraq.  
JUL 13, 2003 Army Sgt Jaror C. Puello-Coronado 36, Born: Dominican Rep. Pocono Summit, PA                        Camp Edson, Iraq.

JUL 16, 2003 Army Spc Ramon Reyes-Torres 29, Caguas,  PR  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUL 17, 2003 Navy HC3Class David J. Moreno 26, Gering NB  Hamishiyah, Iraq.  
                (Pediatraic Wing at Balboa Naval Hosp. San Diego, CA named in his honor).

JUL  24. 2003 Army Sgt Juan M. Serrano 31, Manati, PR   Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUL 24, 2003 Army Ssgt Hector R. Perez 40, Corpus Christi, TX  Hawd, Iraq.  
JUL 26, 2003 Army Spc Wilfredo Perez, Jr  24, Norwalk, CT (Queens,NY)  Baghdad, Iraq.  
AUG 06, 2003 Army Zeferino Eusebio Colunga 20, Bellville, TX  Iraq. 
                         (Died at Homburg University Hosp. Germany).  
AUG 25, 2003 Army Pfc Pablo Manzano 19, Heber, CA  Dogwood, Iraq.  
AUG 27, 2003 Army Spc Rafael  L. Navea 34, Pittsburg, PA  Fallujah, Iraq.  
SEP 11, 2003 Army Sgt Henry Ybarra III 32, Austin, TX  Balad, Iraq.  
SEP 18, 2003 Army Spc Richard Arriaga 20, Ganado, TX  Tikrit, Iraq.  

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SEP 25, 2003 Army Capt Robert L. Lucero 34, Casper, WY  Tikrit, Iraq.  
OCT 01, 2003 Army Analaura Esparza Gutierrez 21, Houston, TX  (Born in MX)  Tikrit, Iraq.                                             (see Jul 09,2003 Milissa Valles’s articles).  
OCT 01, 2003 Army Spc Tamra J. Ramos 24, Quakertown, PA   WA D.C.  
OCT 06, 2003 Army 2^nd LT Richard Torres 25, Clantsville, TN  Baghdad, Iraq.  
OCT 13, 2003 Army Pfc Jose Casanova 23, El Monte, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
OCT 24, 2003 Army Spc Jose L. Mora 26, Bell Gardens, CA  Samaria, Iraq.  
OCT 26, 2003 Army Pvt Joseph R. Guerrera  20, Dunn, NC  Baghdad, Iraq.  
OCT 26, 2003 Army Pfc Steven Acosta 19, Calexico, CA  (Mexicali,MX)  Baghdad, Iraq  
OCT 30, 2003 Army Sgt Michael Paul Barrera 28, Von Ormy, TX  Baqubah, Iraq.  
NOV 02, 2003 Army Ssgt Paul A.(Tony) Velazquez  29, San Diego, CA  Fullujah, Iraq.  
NOV 02, 2003 Army Sgt Frances M. Vega 20, Ft Buchanan, PR  Fallujah, Iraq.  
NOV 02, 2003 Army Sgt Joel Perez 25, Rio Grande, PR  Fallujah, Iraq.  
NOV 04, 2003 Army Sgt Francisco Martinez  28, Humacao, PR  Baghdad, Iraq.  
NOV 05, 2003 Army Sgt 1^st Class Jose A. Rivera 28, Bayamon, PR Mumuhdyah, Iraq.  
NOV 08, 2003 Army Ssgt Mark D. Vasquez 35, Port Huron, MI  Fullujah, Iraq.  
NOV 08, 2003 Army Sgt Linda C. Jimenez 39 Brooklyn, NY (Phoenix,AZ)  
                     Walter Reed Hospital, WA D.C.

NOV 11, 2003 Army Spc Genaro Acosta 26, Fair Oaks, CA  Taji, Iraq.  
NOV 14, 2003 Army Spc Ivrving Medina  22, Middletown, NY (Mexico City,MX) Baghdad,Iraq.  
NOV 28, 2003 Army Sgt Ariel Rico  25, El Paso, TX  Mosul, Iraq.  
DEC 28, 2003 Army Pvt Rey D. Cuervo 24, Laguna Vista, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
DEC 28, 2003 Army Capt Ernesto M. Blanco 28, San Antonio, TX   Qaryat Ash Shababi, Iraq.                            (Bronze Star)

2004: (100)  
JAN 01, 2004 Army Sgt Dennis A. Corral 33, (born: San Diego, CA) Kearny, NE  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JAN 14, 2004 Army Sgt Roland L. Castro  26, San Antonio, TX  Camp Cedar II, Iraq.  
JAN  21,2004 Army  Spc Gabriel T. Palacios  22, Lynn, MA (Nicaragua)   Iraq.  
JAN 29, 2004 Army Pfc Luis A. Moreno 19, (Born: Dominican Rep.) Bronx, NY  Baghdad, Iraq  
JAN 31, 2004 Army Sgt Eliu A. Miersandoval 27, (Born:Durango,MX) San Clemente,CA  
                        Kirkuk, Iraq  
JAN 31, 2004 Army Cpl Juan Carlos Casral Banuelos 25, (Born: Jeres,MX) Emporia, KS (Ogden UT)        FEB 01, 2004 Army Pfc Amando Soriano 20, Houston, TX  Haditha, Iraq.  
FEB 10, 2004 Army USAF Msgt Jude C. Mariano 39, Vallejo, CA  Doha, Qutar.  

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FEB 11, 2004 Army Pfc William C. Ramirez, 19 Portland, OR   Baghdad, Iraq.  
FEB 12, 2004 Army Spc Erik Ulysses Ramirez 31, San Diego, CA  Gireb, Iraq.  
FEB 16, 2004 Army Michael M. Merila 23, Sierra Vista, AZ (FT Lewis,WA) Talifar, Iraq.  
MAR 13, 2004 Army Spc Jocelyn L. Carrasquillo  28, Wrightsville, NC   Iraq.  
MAR 26, 2004 Marine Pfc Leroy Sandoval, Jr  21 Houston, TX  Fullujah, Anbar Province Iraq.  
APR 04, 2004 Army Spc Robert R. Asiaga  25, Midland, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 04, 2004 Army Spc Israel Garza 25, Lubbock, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 05, 2004 Marine Pfc Christopher Ramos 26, Albuquerque, NM   Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
APR 06, 2004 Navy PO 3^rd Class Fernando A. Mendez-Aceves 27, (Born: Mex. City, MX) Ponce, PR                         Ramadi, Iraq.

APR 06, 2004 Army Sgt Gerardo (Chito) Moreno 23, Terrell, TX  Ashula, Iraq.  
APR 06, 2004 Army Isaac Michael Nieves 20, Unadilla, NY  Bani Saad, Iraq. (Bronze Star, Purple Heart                         National Def. Service Medal and GWOT medal).  
APR 09, 2004  Marine Lcpl Elim Torrez III 21 Veribest, TX   Iraq.  
APR 10, 2004 Army Spc Adolfo C. Carballo 20, Houston, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 11, 2004 Marine Cpl Daniel R. Amaya 22, Odessa, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
APR 11, 2004 Marine Pfc George D. Torres 23 Long Beach, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq  
APR 11, 2004 Marine 1^st LT Oscar Jimenez 34, San Diego, CA  Anbar, Prov. Iraq (Natl. Def Ser. Medal) APR 13, 2004 Army Ssgt Victor A. Rosales-Lomeli 29, (Born: Mex.City, MX) Westminster, CA  Iraq. APR 14, 2004 Army Sgt Christopher Ramirez 34, McAllen, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
APR 15, 2004 Marine Ssgt Jimmy J. Arroyave 30, Woodland, CA  Ramadi, Iraq.  
APR 17, 2004 Marine Lcpl Ruben Valdez, Jr 21 San Diego, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
APR 27, 2004 Army Ssgt Abraham D. Pena[Medina  32, Los Angeles, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
MAY 01, 2004 Army Spc Ramon C. Ojeda 22, Ramona, CA  Amarah, Iraq.  
MAY 01, 2004 Army Ssgt Oscar D. Vargas-Medina  32, Chicago, IL  Amarah, Iraq.  
MAY 08, 2004 Army Spc Isela Rubalcava 25, El Paso, TX (3^rd Stryker Brigade Ft Lewis,WA) 
           Mosul, Iraq. ( See Jul 09, 2003 Melissa Valles BIOS & Articles)  
MAY 15, 2004 Army Ssgt Rene Ledesma 34, Abilene, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
MAY 18, 2004 Army Cpl Marcos O. Nolasco 34, (Born: Guadalajara,MX) Chino, CA  Baji, Iraq.  
MAY 19, 2004 Marine Cpl Rudy Salas 20, Baldwin, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
MAY 23, 2004 Marine Jorge A. Molina Bautista 37, Rialto, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
MAY 25, 2004 Army Pfc Richard H. Rosas 21, Saint Louis, MI  Fullujah, Iraq.  
MAY 29, 2004 Marine Lcpl Rafael Reynosa-Saurez 28, Santa Ana, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  

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MAY 29, 2004 Marine Lcpl Benjamin R. Gonzalez 23, Los Angeles, CA  Ramadi, Iraq.  
JUN 21, 2004 Marine Lcpl Juan Lopez 22, Whitfield, GA (Mexico) Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
JUN 22, 2004 Marine Lcpl Pedro Contrerras 27, Houston, TX Anbar Prov. Iraq. (Natl Def.Ser medal) JUN 26, 2004 Marine Lcpl Manuel A. Ceniceros 23, Santa Ana, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
JUL 05, 2004 Mrine Lcpl Michael S. Torres 21, El Paso, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
JUL 11, 2004 Army Sgt 1^st Class Linda Ann Tarango-Griess 33, Sutton,Neb. (Clovis NM)
                 Samarra, Iraq. (Promoted to Msgt, awarded the Bronze Star & Purple Heart).  
JUL 12, 2004 Army Spc Juan M. Torres 25, Houston, TX  Bagram, Afghanistan.  
JUL 14, 2004 Army Pfc Jesse L. Martinez 20, Tracy, CA   Talafar, Iraq.  
AUG 01, 2004 Army Spc Armando Hernandez 22, Hesperia, CA  Samarra, Iraq.  
AUG 02, 2004 Marine Sgt Juan Calderon, Jr   20, Weslaco, TX Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
AUG 05, 2004 Army Sgt Moses D. Rocha 33, Roswell, NM (Orange Co. CA) Najaf, Iraq (Purple Heart) AUG 05, 2004 Marine Sgt Yadir G. Reynoso 27, Wapato, WA  Najaf, Iraq.  
AUG 05, 2004 Marine Cpl Roberto Abad 22, Los Angeles, CA  Najaf, Iraq  
AUG 12, 2004 Army Sgt Daniel Lee Galvan  30, Moore, OK  Salerno, Afghanistan  
AUG 15, 2004 Marine Pfc Geoffrey Perez 24, Los Angeles, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
AUG 15, 2004 Army Spc Mark Anthony Zapata 27, Edinburg, TX  Najaf, Iraq.  
AUG 15, 2004 Marine Cpl Nicanor Alvarez 22, San Bernardino, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
AUG 24, 2004 Marine Lcpl Jacob R. Lugo 21, Flower Mound, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
AUG 25, 2004 Marine Cpl Alexandro S. Arredondo  20, Randolph, Mass  
AUG 27, 2004 Army Pfc Luis A. Perez 19, Theresa, NY (East Chicago, Il ) Fallujah, Iraq.  
AUG 28, 2004 Marine Sgt Edgar E. Lopez 27, Los Angeles, CA  Babil, Iraq.  
SEP 03, 2004 Marine Lcpl Nicholas Perez 19, Austin, TX  Anbar Prov Iraq  
SEP 06, 2004 USAF Capt John J. Boria 29, Baroken Arrow, OK   Doha, Qatar. 
                        KC-135 Air Refueling Pilot. U.S. Air Force Academy Graduate.  
SEP 06, 2004 Army Spc Tomas Garces 19, Welasco, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
SEP 08, 2004 Army Spc Laruo G. De Leon    20, Floresville, TX  Balad, Iraq.  
SEP 08, 2004 Marine Lcpl Cesar F. Machado Olmos 20, Spanish Fork, UT  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
SEP 08, 2004 Army Spc Michael A. Martinez  29, Juana Diaz, PR  Baghdad, Iraq.  
SEP 24, 2004 Marine Lcpl Ramon Mateo 20, Suffolk, NY  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
SEP 27, 2004 Army Sgt 1^st Class Joselito O. Villaneuva 36, Los Angeles,CA  Samarra, Iraq (Purple Heart).  
OCT 01, 2004 Army Sgt Michael Uvanni 27, Rome, NY  Samarra, Iraq.  

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OCT 12, 2004 Marine Pfc Oscar A. Martinez 19, North Lauderdale, FL (Born in Dallas, TX)                          (Parents from El Salvador). Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
OCT 13, 2004 Army Lcpl Victor A. Gonzalez 19, Watsonville, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
OCT 13, 2004 Army Spc Jaime Moreno 28, Round Lake Beach, IL  Baghdad, Iraq.  
OCT 15, 2004 Marine Cpl William I. Salazar 26, Las Vegas, NV  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
OCT 15, 2004 Army Spc Jonathan J. Santos 22, Bellingham, WA  Karabilah, Iraq. 
                         (Purple Heart, Natl. Def. Svc Medal and GWOT medal)  
OCT 27, 2004 Army Cpl Billy Gomez  25, Perris, CA  Naka, Afghanistan 
                         (Died at Landstuhl, Germany  Reg. Med. Ctr.  
NOV 04, 2004 Marine Cpl Jeremiah A. Baro  21, Fresno, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
NOV 05, 2004 Army Sgt Carlos M. Camacho-Rivera 24,  Carolina, PR  Fallujah, Iraq.  
NOV 09, 2004 Marine Lcpl Juan E. Segura  26, Homestead, FL  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
NOV 10, 2004 Marine Cpl Romolo J. Jimenez II  21, Miami, FL  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
NOV 10, 2004 Marine Sgt Gene Ramirez 28, San Antonio, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
NOV 13, 2004 Army Spc Jose A. Velez 23, Lubbock, TX  Fullujah, Iraq.  
NOV 14, 2004 Marine Cpl Andres H. Perez 21, Santa Ana, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
NOV 15, 2004 Maine Sgt Rafael Peralta 25, San Diego, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
NOV 15, 2004 Army Pfc Jose Ricardo Flores-Mejia  21, Santa Clara, CA   Mosul, Iraq.  
NOV 18, 2004 Marine Lcpl Luis A. Figueroa  21, Los Angeles, CA  Anbar, Iraq.  
NOV 20, 2004 Marine Cpl Joseph J. Heredia  22, Santa Ana, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq  
NOV 24, 2004 Army Spc Sergio R. Diaz-Varela  21, Lomita, CA  Ramadi, Iraq.  
NOV 27, 2004 Marine Lcpl Joshua E. Lucero 19, Tucson, Az  Fullujah, Iraq.  
NOV 28, 2004 Army Sgt Trinidad R. Martinez-Luis  22, Los Angeles, CA  Fullujah, Iraq.  
NOV 29, 2004 Army Pfc Wilfredo F. Urbina  29, Baldwin, NY  Baghdad, Iraq.  
NOV 30, 2004 Army Sgt Jose Guerreca, Jr 24, Missouri, TX  Fallujah, Iraq. (Bronze Star & Purple Heart).
NOV 30, 2004 Army Pablo A. Calderon 26, Brooklyn, NY  Fullujah, Iraq.  
DEC 01, 2004 Army Spc Isaac E. Diaz 20, (Born: San Benito, TX) Rio Hondo, TX  Sharona, Iraq.  
DEC 01, 2004 Marine GSgt Javier Obleas-Prado Pena  30, Fall Church, VA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
DEC 12, 2004 Marine Lcpl Hilario F. Lopez 22, Ingleside, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
DEC 14, 2004 Army Spc Victor A. Martinez 22, Bronx, NY  Baghdad, Iraq  
DEC 19,2004 Army Sgt Berry Kenneth Meza 23, League City, TX  Shuaybah, Kuwait.  
DEC 21, 2004 Army Spc Jonathan Castro 21, Corona, CA  Mosul, Iraq.  
DEC 27, 2004 Army Spc Jose A. Rivera-Serrano 26, Mayaquez, PR  Baghdad, Iraq.

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DEC 28, 2004 Navy Seaman Pablito Pena-Brionez  22, Anaheim, CA  Fullujah, Iraq.
DEC 29, 2004 Army Pfc Oscar Sanchez 19, Mosesto, CA  Mosul, Iraq (1^st Stryker Brigade, Ft Lewis, WA)   (Natl. Def Svc Medal, GWOT, Bronze Star & Purple Heart).

2005: (102)

JAN 02, 2005 Army Sgt 1^st Class  Pedro A. Munoz  47, Aquada, PR Shindand, Afghanistan                        (Born:Quebradilla,PR) Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Meritorious Svc Med 2 Oak leaf clt.

JAN 06, 2005 Marine Cpl Julio Cisneros Alvarez 22, Pharr, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
JAN 13, 2005 Marine Lcpl Juan R Rodriguez-Velasco 23, El Cenizo, TX Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
JAN 17, 2005 Army Pfc Jesus Fonseca, Jr 19, Marrietta,  GA  Ramadi, Iraq.  
JAN 24, 2005 Army Jesus al Leon-Perez 20, Houston, TX  Mohammed Sacran, Iraq.  
JAN 24, 2005 Army Javier Marin, Jr 29, Mission, TX  Mohammed Sacran, Iraq.  
JAN 26, 2005 Marine Lcpl Tony L. Hernandez 22, Canyon Lake, TX  Rutbah, Iraq.  
JAN 26, 2005 Marine Lcpl Hector Ramos 20, Aurora, IL  Ruibah, Iraq.  
JAN 26, 2005 Marine Capt Paul C. Alaniz 32, Corpus Christi, TX  Rutbah, Iraq.  
JAN 27, 2005 Army Pfc Kevin M. Luna  26, Oxnard, CA  Mugddiyah, Iraq.  
JAN 28, 2005 Army Ssgt Joseph E. Rodriguez 25, Las Cruces, NM  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JAN 28, 2005 Amry Pfc Stephen a. Castellano 20, Long Beach, CA  Mosul, Iraq.  
JAN 28, 2005 Army Capt Orlando Bonilla 27, Killen, TX  Baghdad, Iraq. |
JAN 30, 2005 Marine Lcpl Nazario Serrano 20, Irving, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
FEB 04, 2005 Army Sgt Daniel Torres 23, Ft Worth, TX  Bayji, Iraq.  
FEB 10, 2005 Marine Lcpl  Richard A. Perez, Jr 19,  Las Vegas, NV  Anbar Prov. Iraq  
FEB 17, 2005 Army Sgt Frank B. Hernandez 21, Phoenix, AZ Talafar, Iraq    
                        (1^st Stryker Brigade Ft Lewis, WA)  
FEB 18, 2005 Army Sgt Carolos J. Gil 30, Orlando, FL  Humanlyuh, Iraq.  
FEB 28, 2005 Army Sgt Julio E. Negron 28, (Born: San German, PR) Pompano Beach, Fl  Bayji, Iraq. MAR 01, 2005 Army Spc Lizbeth Robles  31, Vega Baja, PR  Bayji, Iraq.  
MAR 04, 2005 Army Ssgt Juan M. Soloria 32, Dallas, TX  Mosul, Iraq. (1^st Stryker Brigade Ft Lewis,WA) MAR 20, 2005 Army  Spc Francisco G. Martinez 20, Ft Worth, TX  Tamin, Iraq.  
APR 05, 2005 Army Sgt Javier J. Garcia 25, Miami, FL  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 06, 2005 Army Msgt Edwin  A. Matos-Colon 42, Juana Diaz, Pr  Ghazni, Afghanistan  
APR 06, 2005 Army CWO David Ayala 24, New York, NY  Ghazni, Afghanistan  
APR 07, 2005 Marine Lcpl Juan C. Venegas 21, Simi Valley, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
APR 12, 2005 Army Spc Manuel Lopez III 20, Cape Corral, FL  Baghdad, Iraq.  

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APR 15, 2005 Army Spc Aleina Ramirez-Gonzalez 33, Homigueros,  PR  Tikrit, Iraq.  
APR16, 2005 Army Sgt Angelo L. Lozada, Jr 36 Brooklyn, NY (Puerto Rico) Ramadi, Iraq 
                           (Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Army Commendation Medal).  
APR 30, 2005 Army Ssgt Juan de Dios Garcia-Arana 27 Los Angeles, CA  Khaladiyah, Iraq.  
MAY 07, 2005 Marine Sgt Aaron N. Cepedos, Sr  22,  San Antonio, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
MAY 23, 2005 Marine Sgt Christopher S. Perez 30, Hutehinson, KS  Ramadi, Iraq.  
MAY 26, 2005 Marine Major Ricardo A. Croker 39, Mission Viejo, CA  Haditbah, Iraq.  
MAY 31, 2005 Army Sgt Miguel A. Ramos 39, Mayaquez, PR  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUN 03, 2005 Marine Cpl Antonio Mendoza 21, Santa Ana, CA    Ramadi, Iraq.  
JUN 05, 2005 Marine Lcpl Daniel Chavez  20, Odessa, TX  Haglaniyah, Iraq.  
JUN 08, 2005 Army Ssgt Justin L. Vasquez 26, Manzanola, CO  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUN 08, 2005 Army Pfc  Emmanuel C. Hernandez 22, Yauco, PR  Shkin, Afghanistan  
JUN 08, 2005 Army Sgt Roberto Arizola, Jr   31, Laredo, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUN 09, 2005 Marine Lcpl  Daniel Chavez  20, Odessa, TX   Haqlaniyah, Iraq.  
JUN 09, 2005 Marine Lcpl Mario A. Castillo 20, Brownwood, TX  Saglawiyah, Iraq.  
JUN 10, 2005 Army Sgt 1^st Class Victor H. Cervantes 27, Stockton, Ca  Orgun-E Afghanistan  
 (Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Meritorious Svc Med. Joint Svc Cmd. Med, Natl. Def. Svc Med & GWOT.  

JUN 15, 2005 Navy HCorp 2^nd Class Cesar O. Baez 37, Pomona, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
JUN 15, 2005 Marine Cpl Jonathan R. Flores 18, San Antonio, TX  Ramadi, Iraq.  
JUN 23, 2005 Marine Cpl Romona M. Valdez  20, Bronx, NY  Fullujah, Iraq.  
JUN 24, 2005 Marine Cpl Carlos Pinera   23, Los Angeles, CA (El Salvador) Fullujah, Iraq.  
JUN 25, 2005 Army Sgt Manny Horedo 27, Brooklyn, NY  Tikrit, Iraq.  
JUN 28, 2005 Army Spc Rafael A. Carrillo, Jr  21 Boys Ranch, TX   Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUL 16, 2005 Army Ssgt Jorge L. Pena-Romero  29, Fallbrook, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUL 17, 2005 Marine Lcpl Efrain Sanchez, Jr  29, Port Chester, NY  Ramadi, Iraq.  
JUL 24, 2005 Army  Pfc  Ramon A. Villatoro, Jr  19, Baskerfield, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUL 29, 2005 Army  Pvt  Ernesto R. Guerra, Jr  20, Long Beach, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
AUG 03, 2005 Marine Lcpl Michael J. Cifuentes  25, Fairfield, OH   Haditha, Iraq.  
AUG 04, 2005 Army Pfc Damian J. Garza 19, (Midland,TX) Odessa, TX  Jalalabad, Afghanistan.  
AUG 07, 2005 Army Pfc  Seferino J. Reyna  20, Phoenix, AZ  Taji, Iraq  (Tollono O’odham Nation)                          (Natl. Def. Svc Medal, GWOT medal and the Army Cmd. Medal)  
AUG 08, 2005 Marine Ssgt Ramon E. Gonzales-Cordova 30 Davis, FL  Ramadi, Iraq.  

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AUG 08, 2005 Army Pfc Hernando Rios  29, Queen, NY  Baghdad, Iraq  
AUG 09, 2005 Army Spc Miguel Carrasquillo  25, River Grove, IL  Baghdad, Iraq.  
AUG 10, 2005 Marine Lcpl Evenor C. Herrera  22, Gypsum, CO (Honduras)  Ramadi, Iraq.
AUG 15, 2005 Army Spc Jose L. Ruiz  28, Brentwood, NY  Mosul Iraq  (Ft Lewis, WA)  
AUG 22, 2005 Marine Pfc  Ramon Romero  19, Huntington Park, CA  Fullujah, Iraq.  
AUG 23, 2005 Army 1^st Lt  Carlos J. Diaz  27, Juana Diaz, PR   Baghdad, Iraq.  
AUG 27, 2005 Army Spc Joseph L. Martinez   21  Las Vegas, NV  Talafar, Iraq.  
AUG 29, 2005 Army 2^nd Lt Charles R. Rubado  23, (Clearwater,FL) Calexico, CA  Ramadi, Iraq.  
SEP 15, 2005, Army Spc William V. Fernandez  37, Reading, PA  Ramadi, Iraq.  
SEP 26, 2005 Marine Lcpl Steven A. Valdez   20, Merea, Ark.  Camp Blessing, Afghanistan.  
SEP 26, 2005 Marine Pvt Elijah M. Ortega  19, Oxnard, CA  Baharia, Iraq.  
OCT 03, 2005 Army Pfc Robeto C Baez 19, Tampa, FL  Haglaniyah, Iraq.  
OCT 09, 2005 Marine Lcpl Sergio H. Escobar  18, Pasadena, CA  Ramadi, Iraq.
OCT 12, 2005 Army Sgt Lorenzo Ponce Ruiz  26,  El Paso, TX  Balad, Iraq  
OCT 12, 2005 Army Spc James T. Grijalva  26, Burbank, IL   Baghdad, Iraq.  
OCT 14, 2005 Navy Builder 3^rd Class Fabracio Moreno  26, Brooklyn, NY  Manda Bay Kenya  
OCT 16, 2005 Army Pfc Joseph Cruz  22, Whittier, CA  Organ-E, Afghanistan  
OCT 19, 2005  Army Sgt Arthur A. Mora, Jr  23, Pico Rivera, CA  Balad, Iraq.  
OCT 19, 2005  Army Spc Russell H. Nahui  24, Arlington, TX  Balad, Iraq.  
OCT 19, 2005 Army Spc Jose E. Rosario   20, St Coris, Virgen Island   Balad, Iraq  
OCT 26, 2005 Army Sgt 1^st Class Ramon A Acevedo-Aponte   51,  Penuelos, PR     
                      Hometown: Watertown, NY   Rustamiyah, Iraq.  
OCT 29, 2005 Army Pfc Kenny D. Rojas  21, Pembroke, FL   Bayji, Iraq.  
NOV 07, 2005 Army Pfc Mario A. Reyes  19, Las Cruces, NM    Baghdad, Iraq.  
NOV 10, 2005 Army Sgt Joshua A. Terando  27, Morris, IL  Alkhalidiyah, Iraq.  
NOV 11, 2005 Army Pfc Antonio Mendez-Sanchez  22, Rincon, PR  Kirkut, Iraq. (Ft Lewis, WA)  
NOV 12, 2005  Marine Lcpl David B. Mendez-Ruiz  20, Cleveland, OH  Amiriyah, Iraq.  
NOV 14, 2005 Marine Cpl John M. Longoria  21, Nixon, TX  New Ubaydi, Iraq.  
NOV 14, 2005 Marine Major Ramon J. Mendoza, Jr   37,  Columbus, OH  New Ubaydi  
NOV 16, 2005 Army Alexis Roman-Cruz  33,  Brandon, FL  Taji, Iraq  
NOV 16, 2005 Marine Lcpl John A. Lucente  19, Grass Valley, CA  New Ubaydi, Iraq.

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NOV 17, 2005 Army Ssgt Ivan V. Alarcon  23, Jerome, ID   Talafar, Iraq.  
NOV 18, 2005 Army Sgt  Luis R. Reyes 26, Aurora, CO  Ali Al Salem, Kuwait  
NOV 19, 2005 Army Pvt Christopher M. Algozer  21, Dekald, IL   Mosul, Iraq.  
NOV 19, 2005 Marine Lcpl Miguel Terrazas  20, El Paso, TX  Bayji, Iraq.  
NOV 22, 2005 Army Sgt Denis  J. Gallardo  22, St Peterburg, FL  Talafar, Iraq. 
                         (Bronze Star) ( Was 11 years old when he immigrated to the U.S.)  
NOV 24, 2005 SPC Javier A. Villanueva  25, Temple, TX  Hit, Irag.  
NOV 24, 2005 Army Pfd Marc A. Delgado  21, Lithia, FL  Baghdad, Iraq.  
DEC 01, 2005  Marine Lcpl Robert A. Martinez  20, Splendora, TX  Fullujah, Iraq.  
DEC 08, 2005 Army  Ssgt Milton Rivera-Vargas  55, Boqueron, PR  Kalsu, Iraq. 
                         Army Natl. Guard Sabana  Grande PR  
DEC 09, 2005 Army Sgt Adrian N. Orosco  26, Corcoran, CA   Baghdad, Iraq.  
DEC 13, 2005 Army Spc Peter J. Navarro  20, San Benito, TX  Ramadi, Iraq.  
DEC 18, 2005 Marine Lcpl Samuel Tapia  20, Wildwood, MO  Taji, Iraq.  
DEC 22, 2005 Army Spc William Lopez-Fecliciano  33, Quebradillas, PR  Baghdad, Iraq.  
DEC 25, 2005 Army Spc Sergio Gudino  22, Pomona, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
DEC 26, 2005 Army CWO Isaias E. Santos  28, Ancon, Panama  Baghdad, Iraq  (Ft Hood, TX)  
DEC 31, 2005 Army  Spc Marcelino R. Corniel  23, Puente, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  

2006: (126)

JAN 05, 2006 Army Pvt Robbie M. Mariano  21, Stoctkton, CA  Najaf, Iraq.  
JAN 05, 2006 Army Sgt Johnny J. Perelez, Jr  25, Kingville, TX (Falfurria, TX)  Najaf, Iraq.  
JAN 05, 2006 Army Sgt Jason Lopez-Reyes  29, Hatillo, PR  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JAN 07, 2006 Army Major Michael R. Martinez  43, Missoni/ Ft Carson, CO  Talafar, Iraq.  
JAN 07, 2006 Army Sgt Radhames Camilo Matos  24, (Carolina,PR) Monnrovia, CA  Taji, Iraq                           (Last name:  Camilomatos)  
JAN 20, 2006 Marine Cpl Carlos Arellano- Pandura  22, (Bronx,NY) Rosemead, CA  Haglaniyah, Iraq. JAN 27, 2006 Marine Lcpl Hugo R. Lopez-Lopez  20, La Habra, CA Rawah,Iraq /Brooke AMC TX JAN 28, 2006 Army Sgt David L. Herrera  26, Oceanside, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JAN 28, 2006 Marine Cpl Felipe C. Barbosa  21, (Borvin,Brazil) High Point, NC  Fallujah, Iraq.  
FEB 01, 2006 Army Spc Marlon A. Bustamente  25, Corona, NY    Baghdad, Iraq.  
FEB 03, 2006 Army Spc Jesse M. Zamora  22, Las Cruces, NM  Bayji, Iraq.  
FEB 04, 2006 Army Spc Roberto L. Martinez-Salazar  21, Long Beach, CA (Born in Mexico) Mosul, Iraq                         Bronze Star & Purple Heart   (Ft Lewis, WA)

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FEB 05, 2006 Army Spc Sergio A. Mercedes-Saez  23, New York, NY   Baghdad, Iraq. (Bronze Star)                         (Born in PR and raised in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Rep.)  
FEB 09, 2006 Marine Pfc Javier Chavez, Jr  19, Cutler, CA   Fullujah, Iraq.  
FEB 12, 2006 Army Spc Felipe J. Garcia- Villareal  26, Burke, VA  Ramadi, Iraq.  
FEB 13, 2006 Army Sgt 1^st Class Chad A. Gonslavez  48, Turlock, CA  Deh Rawod, Afghanistan.  
FEB 17, 2006 Army Capt Anthony R. Garcia  48, Ft Worth, TX (Hudson Oaks, TX)  Tikrit, Iraq.  
FEB 17, 2006 USAF  Ssgt Luis M. Melendez-Sanchez  33, Bayamon, PR  Siyan Djibouti, Iraq.  
FEB 20, 2006 Army Sgt Jesse Davila  20, Greenburg, KS   Baghdad, Iraq.  
FEB 28, 2006 Army Msgt  Emigaio E. Elizarras   37, Pico Rivera, CA  Tarin Kont, Afghanistan.  
MAR 07, 2006 Army Pfc Ricky  Salas, Jr  22, Roswell, NM  Mosul, Iraq.  
MAR 13, 2006 Army Ssgt Marco A. Silva  27, Alva, FL  Ramadi, Iraq.  
MAR 16, 2006 Army Spc Carlos M. Gonzalez  22, Middletown, NY  Tikrit, Iraq. 
        (2-Bronze Stars, Purple Heart, Natl. Def. Svc Med.,GWOT medal & Army Cmd.med w/2 Oak leaf) MAR 18, 2006 Army Ssgt Ricardo Barraza  24, Shafter, CA  Ramadi, Iraq. (Ft Lewis, WA)  
MAR 28, 2006 Army Ssgt Robert Hernandez  47, Silver Spring, MD  (Puerto Rico) Taquaddum, Iraq. MAR 29, 2006 Army Pfc Joseph J. Duenas  23,  Meza, AZ  Kirkuk Prov. Iraq.  
APR 01, 2006 Army Sgt Israel Devora Garcia  23, Clint, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 02, 2006 Marine Cpl Andres Aguilar, Jr  21  Victoria TX  Alsad, Iraq.  
APR 02, 2006 Marine Lcpl Felipe D. Sandoval-Flores  21, Victoria, TX  Asad, Iraq.  
APR 08, 2006 Marine Lcpl   Juana Navarro-Arellano  24, Ceres, CA   Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
APR 11, 2006 Army Cpl Joseph A. Blanco  25, Bloomington, CA  Taji, Iraq.  
APR 12, 2006 Army Pfc Roland  E. Calderon-Ascensio  21, Miami, Fl   Msiab, Iraq. 
                   (Parents are from El Salvador). |
APR 13, 2006 Marine Lcpl Stephen J. Perez  22, San Antonio, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
APR 15, 2006 Marine Cpl Pablo V. Moyorga  33, Margate, FL  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
APR 27, 2006 Army 1^st Sgt Bobby Mendez  38, Brooklyn, NY  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 28, 2006 Army Sgt Jose Gomez  23,  Corona, NY  Baghdad, Iraq. 
MAY 05, 2006 Army 1^st Sgt Carlos N. Saenz  46, Las Vegas, NV  Baghdad, Iraq.  
MAY 05, 2006 Army Spc Teodoro Torres  29, Las Vegas, NV  Baghdad, Iraq.  
MAY 11, 2006 Marine Lcpl David J. Gomes-Sanchez  22, Ft Wayne, IN  Anbar Prov. Iraq.                       
              (Last name: Grames-Sanchez)  
MAY 14, 2006 Marine Lcpl Jose Marin-Dominguez, Jr  22  Liberal, KS Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
MAY 21, 2006 Marine Lcpl Benito A. Ramirez  21, Edinburg, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  

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MAY 27, 2006 Army Spc Adan Garcia  20, Irving, IL  Baghdad, Iraq.(Died at Bethesda, Md NMC).  
MAY 31, 2006 Army Sgt Benjamin E. Mejia  25, Salem, MA  Romadi, Iraq.  
JUN 08, 2006 Army Cpl Luis D. Santos  20, Rialto, CA  Buritz, Iraq.  
JUN 09, 2006 Army Sgt Jose M. Velez  35, Bronx, NY  Kirkuk, Iraq.  
JUN 09, 2006 Marine Lcpl Salvador Guerrero  21, Los Angeles, CA  Qaim, Iraq.  
JUN 11, 2006 Army Cpl Bernard P. Corpuz  28, Watsonville, CA  Ghazni, Iraq.  
JUN 14, 2006 Marine Cpl Michael A. Estrella  20, Hemet, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
JUN 14, 2006 Army Sgt Roger P. Pena, Jr  20, San Antonio, TX  Musa Qulan, Afghanistan.  
JUN 16, 2006 Army Sgt Ian T. Sanchez  26, Staten Island, NY  Peoh River Valley, Afghanistan.  
JUN 16, 2006 Army Pfc Kristian Menchaca  23, San Marcos, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUN 17, 2006 Army Sgt Reyes Ramirez  23, Willis, TX   Ramadi, Iraq.  
JUN 24, 2006 Army Sgt Alberto A. Sanchez  33, Houston, TX  Balad, Iraq.  
JUN 24, 2006 Army Sgt Virrueta A. Sanchez  33, Houston, TX  Balad, Iraq.  
JUL 08, 2006 Army Ssgt Omar D. Flores  27, Mission, TX  Ramadi, Iraq.  
JUL 09, 2006 Army Spc Damien M. Montoyo  21, Holbrook, AZ  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUL 12, 2006  Army Sgt Irving Hernandez, Jr  28, New York, NY   Mosul, Iraq.  
JUL 15, 2006 Army Spc Manuel J. Holquin  21, Woodlake, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUL 15, 2006 Army Sgt Andres J. Conterras  23, Huntington Park, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUL 19, 2006 Army Ssgt Eric Caban  28, Ft Worth, TX  Southern Afghanistan.  
JUL 20, 2006 Marine Cpl Julian A. Ramon  22, Flushing, NY  Ramadi, Iraq.  
JUL 25, 2006 Army Spc Andrew Velez  22, Lubbock, TX  Sharona, Afghanistan.  
JUL 26, 2006 Marine Cpl Julian A. Ramon  22, Flushing, NY  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
JUL 27, 2006 Marine Pfc Enrique C. Sanchez  21, Garner, NC  Ramadi, Iraq.  
AUG 03, 2006 Marine Sgt George M. Ulloa, Jr  23, Austin, TX  Tagaddum, Iraq.  
AUG 04, 2006 Army Sgt Leroy Segura, Jr   23, Clovis, NM  Habaniyah, Iraq.  
AUG 06, 2006 Army Cpl Jose Zamora  24, Sunland Park, NM  Baghdad, Iraq.  
AUG 09, 2006 Army Spc Ignacio Ramirez  22, Henderson, NV  Ramadi, Iraq.  
AUG 11, 2006 Army Spc Rogelio R. Garza  20, Corpus Christi, TX  Nangalam, Afghanistan.  
AUG 17, 2006 Army Pfc James J. Arellano  19, Cheyenne, NY  Baghdad, Iraq.  
AUG 18, 2006 Army Sgt 1^st Class Ruben J. Villa, Jr  36, El Paso, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  

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AUG 20, 2006 Marine Cpl Adam A. Galvez  21, Salt Lake City, UT  Rawah, Iraq.  
AUG 26, 2006 Army Spc Edgardo Zayas  29, Dorchester, MA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
AUG 27, 2006 Army Sgt David J. Almazan  22, Van Nuys, CA   Hit, Iraq.  
SEP 01, 2006 Army Ssgt Angel D. Mercado-Velazquez  24, _________   Puerto Rico   Yasifiyah, Iraq. SEP 02, 2006 Army Sgt Ralph N. Porras  36, Merrill, MI  Yasifiyah, Iraq.  
SEP 04, 2006 Army Lt. Col. Marshall A. Guitierrez  41,  _____________, NM   Camp Virginia, Kuwait. SEP 04, 2006 Marine Cpl Eric P. Valdepenas  21, Seekonk, MA    Fullujah, Iraq.  
SEP 07, 2006 Army Sgt Luis A. Montes  22, El Centro, CA  Abu Ghraib, Iraq.  
                       (Died at Brooke Army Med Ctr San Antonio, TX)  
SEP 15, 2006 Army Cesar A. Granados  21, La Grand, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
SEP 20, 2006 Marine Cpl Yull Estrada-Rodriguez  21, Alegre Lajas, PR  Barnanall, Iraq.  
SEP 23, 2006 Army Ssgt Carlos Dominquez  57, Savannah, GA  Taji, Iraq.  
SEP 24, 2006 Marine Lcpl Rene Martinez  20, Miami, FL  Habbaniyah, Iraq.  
SEP 26, 2006 Army Jose A. Lanzarin  28, Lubbock, TX  Ramadi, Iraq.  
SEP 30, 2006 Army Cpl Luis E. Tejada  20, Huntington Park, CA  Hit, Iraq.  
OCT 02, 2006 Army Spc Raymond Santos Armijo  22, Phoeniz, AZ  Taji, Iraq.  
OCT  02, 2006 Army Ssgt Joe A. Narvaez  26, San Antonio, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
OCT 03, 2006 Army Ssgt Jonathan Rojas  27, Hammond, IN  Baghdad, Iraq.  
OCT 04, 2006 Marine Cpl Benjamin S. Rosales  20, Houston, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.
OCT 09, 2006 Marine Sgt Julian M. Arechaga  23, Oceanside, NY  Andar Prov. Iraq.  
OCT 18, 2006 Army Ssgt Jesus M. Montalvo  46, Rio Piedras, PR  Baghadad, Iraq.  
OCT 18, 2006 Army Spc Jose R. Perez  21, Ontario, CA  Ramadi, Iraq.  
OCT 19, 2006 Marine Pvt Edward J. Lopez  21, Aurora, IL  Andbar Prov. Iraq.  
OCT 22, 2006 Army Spc Nathaniel A. Aguirre  21, Carrolton, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
OCT 31, 2006 Army Pfc Alex Oceguera  18, San Bernadino, CA  Wygal Valley, Afghanistan.  
OCT  31, 2006 Marine Pfc Jason Franco  18, Corona, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
NOV 05, 2006 Marine Cpl Jose A. Galvan  22, San Antonio, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
NOV 07, 2006 Army Ssgt Richwell A. Doria  25, San Diego, CA  Kirkuk, Iraq.  
NOV 09, 2006 Army Spc  Luis Enrique Leiva  28, (El Salvador) Beaverton, OR   
NOV 09, 2006 Army Sgt 1^st Class Rudy Augustine Salcido  31, Ontario, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  

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NOV 11, 2006 Army Ssgt Misael Martinez  24, Chapel Hill, NC  Ramadi, Iraq.  
NOV 11, 2006 Army Angel De Jesus Lucio Ramirez  22, Pacoima, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
NOV 14,2006 Army Spc Justin R. Garcia  26, Elmhurst, NY  Baghdad, Iraq. 
                        3^rd  Stryker Brigade Ft Lewis,WA  
NOV 14, 2006 Marine Lcpl Mario D. Gonzalez  21  Atlantic, NJ  Ramadi, Iraq.  
NOV 14, 2006 Army Spc Eric G. Palacios-Rivera  ___, Atlantic City, NY Ramadi, Iraq.  
NOV 20, 2006 Army Spc Luis Enrique Leiva  28, (La Puente,CA) Beaverton, OR Anbar Prov. Iraq.                          (Died at home of an enlarge heart).  

NOV 21, 2006 Army Spc Eric Vizcaino  21,  New Mexico  Samarra, Iraq.  
NOV 22, 2006 Marine Lcpl  Joshua C. Alonzo  21,  Dumas, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
NOV 24, 2006 Army Pvt Reece D. Moreno  19, Prescott, AZ   Balad, Iraq.  
DEC 04, 2006 Army Pfc Roger D. Suarez-Gonzalez  21, Miami, FL  Ramadi, Iraq.  
DEC 23, 2006  Army  Pvt  Bobby Mejia   22 ,  Saginaw, MI      Salman Pak, Iraq.  
DEC 23, 2006 Marine Spc Elias  Elias  27,  Glendora, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
DEC 28, 2006 Army  Spc  Luis G. Ayala  21, Southgate, CA  Taji, Iraq.  

2007: (108)

JAN 14, 2007 Army Sgt Paul T. Sanchez  32, Irving, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JAN 17, 2007 Navy Ops Spc 2^nd Class Joseph D. Alomar  32, Brooklyn, NY  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JAN 19, 2007 Army Sgt 1^st Class Russell P. Borea  38, El Paso, TX (Tucson, AZ) Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
JAN 20, 2007 Marine Lcpl Luis J. Castillo  20, Lawton, MI  (Milford,MI) Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
JAN 20, 2007 Army Cpl Victor M. Langarcia  20,  Decartar, GA   Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
JAN 21, 2007 Marine Lcpl Emilian D. Sanchez  20, Santa Ana  Pueblo, NM  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
JAN 24, 2007 Army Ssgt Hector Leija  27, Houston, TX   Baghdad, Iraq. ( 3^rd Stryker Brigade Ft Lewis WA                           (born in Raymondville, TX).  
JAN 27, 2007 Marine Lcpl Anthony C. Melia  20, Thousand Oaks, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
JAN 30, 2007 Marine Sgt Alejandro Carrillo   22, Los Angeles, CA  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
FEB 07, 2007 Navy Corpsman 3^rd Class  Manuel A. Luiz  21, Federalsburg, MD   Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
FEB 07, 2007 Navy PO1 Gilbert Minjares  31, El Paso, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
FEB 07, 2007 Marine Sgt James R. Tijerina  26, Beasley, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
FEB 17, 2007 Marine Lcpl Brian A. Escalante  25, Dodge City, KS  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
FEB 19, 2007 Army Sgt Pedro J. Colon  25, Cicero, FL   Baghdad, Iraq.  
FEB 21, 2007 Marine Lcpl Angel R. Ramirez  28, Brooklyn, NY  Quaim, Iraq.  
FEB 26, 2007 Marine Lcpl Anthony Aguirre  20, Channelview, TX  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  

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FEB 27, 2007 Army Ssgt Karl O. Soto-Pinedo  22, San Juan, PR  Baghdad, Iraq.  
FEB 28, 2007 Army Pvt  Daneil  Zizumbio  27,( Born: Jaurez,MX) Chicago, IL  Bagram, Afghanistan. MAR 02, 2007 Army Spc Luis O. Rodriquez-Contrera  22, Allentown, PA  Baghdad, Iraq  
MAR 03, 2007 Marine Lcpl Raul S. Bravo, Jr  21, Elko, NV  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
MAR 07, 2007 Army Spc Michael D. Rivera  22, Brooklyn, NY  Baghdad, Iraq.  
MAR 13, 2007 Army Pfc Alberto Garcia, Jr  23, Bakerfield, CA   Baghdad, Iraq  
MAR 13, 2007 Marine Pfc  Angel Rosa  21, Portland, Maine (Puerto Rico)  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
MAR 14, 2007 Marine Lcpl Steven M. Chavez  20, Hondo, NM   Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
MAR 17, 2007 Army Spc Marieo Guerrero  30, Ft Worth, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
MAR 25, 2007 Army Pfc Orlando E. Gonzalez  21, New Freedom, PA  Baqubah, Iraq  
MAR 25, 2007 Army Cpl Jason Nunez  22,  Naranjito,  PR  Baqubah, Iraq  
MAR 29, 2007 Army Spc Agustin Guitierrez  19, San Jacinto, CA  North Kabul, Afghanistan.  
MAR 31, 2007 Army Spc Wilfred Flores,  Jr   20, Lawton, OK  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 01, 2007 Army Ssgt David B. Mejias  26, San Juan, PR    Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 01, 2007  Army Pfc Miguel A. Marcial III  19, Secaucus, NJ  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
APR 03, 2007 Army Pfc Gabariel J. Figueroa  20, Baldwin Park, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 06, 2007 Army Pfac Daniel A. Fuentes   19,  Levittown, NY  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 06, 2007 Army Pvt Damian Lopez-Rodriguez  19, Tucson, AZ  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 06, 2007 Army Capt Anthony Palermo  26, Brockton, MA.  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 06, 2007 Army Spc Ismael G. Soloria   21, San Luis, AZ  Baghdad, Iraq. (2- Purple Hearts).  
APR 11, 2007 Army Sgt Edelman L. Hernandez  23,  Hyattsville, MD  Korengal Valley Afghanistan.  
APR 16, 2007 Marine Lcpl Jesse D. De La Torre  29, Aurora, IL  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
APR 16, 2007 Army Sgt Mario K. DeLeon  26, San Francisco, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 18, 2007 Army Pfc Jason M. Morales   20, La Puente, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
APR 18, 2007 Army Cpl Michael M. Riojas   21, (Clovis,NM) Fresno, CA  Taji, Iraq.  
                         (3^rd Stryker Brigade Ft Lewis, WA)  
APR 23, 2007 Army Spc Michael J. Rodriguez  20, Sanford, NC (Knoxville,TN) Diyala Prov. Iraq.  
APR 27, 2007 Army Spc Eddie D. Tamez  21, Galveston, TX  Fullujah, Iraq.  
MAY 02, 2007 Army Spc Astor Sunsin Pineda  20, (Honduras)  Long Beach, CA  Baghdad, Iraq  
MAY 03, 2007 Army Sgt Felix G. Gonzalez Iraheta  25, Sun Valley, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
MAY 06, 2007  Army Ssgt Virgil Chance Martinez  33, West Valley, UT  Kadhimiyah, Iraq.  

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MAY 12, 2007 Army Spc Alex R. Jimenez  25, Lawrence, MA  (MIA until JUL 10,2008)  
MAY 18, 2007 Army Cpl Joshua G. Romero 19, Crowley, TX  Tahrir, Iraq.  
MAY 18, 2007 Army Sgt Anselmo Martinez III  19 Robstown, TX   Tahrir, Iraq.  
MAY 19, 2007 Army Pfc Alexander R. Valera  19, (Sacramento,CA) Fearmly, NV Baghdad, Iraq.  
MAY 22, 2007 Army Pvt Oscar Sauceda, Jr  21, Del Rio, TX  Baghdad, Iraq  
MAY 23, 2007 Army Cpl Victor Toledo-Pulido  22, (MX) Hawford, CA  Nahrawan, Iraq.  
MAY 25, 2007 Army Spc Alexander Rosa, Jr  22, Orlando, FL  Mugdadiyah, Iraq.  
MAY 26, 2007 Army Cpl Michael L. Jaurique  20, Texas City, TX  Samarra, Iraq.  
MAY 27, 2007 Marine Lcpl Emmanuel Villareal  21, Eagle Pass, TX  Kuwait Naval Base, Kuwait.  
MAY 28, 2007 Army Cpl Junior Cedeno Sanchez  20,  (Dominican Rep) Miami, FL  
                          Abu Sayda, Iraq. (4^th Brigade Ft Lewis, WA)  
MAY 30, 2007 Army Sgt Bacilio Cuellar  24, Odessa, TX   Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUN 01, 2007 Army Ssgt  Juan F. Campos  27, McAllen, TX  Baghdad (Brooke AMC, San Antonio TX) JUN 02, 2007 Army Cpl Romel Catalan  21, Los Angeles, CA  Amariyah, Iraq (4^th Brigade Ft Lewis,WA) JUN 05, 2007 Army Pfc Justin A. Verdeja  20, La Puente, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUN 16, 2007 Army Sgt  Danny R. Soto  24, (Hondurus) Houston, TX  Rashidiyah,Iraq. 
                       4^th Brigade, Ft Lewis, WA  
JUN 18, 2007 Army Sgt  Frank M. Sandoval  27, (Palo Alto,CA) Yuma, AZ  Tikrit, Iraq.  
JUN 21, 2007 Army Sgt Alphonso J. Montenegro II   22, Rockaway, NY  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUN 22 Army Spc Dominic N. Rodrigues  23, Klamath Falls, OR  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUN 28, 2007 Army Sgt Michael J. Martinez  24, Chula Vista, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUN 28, 2007 Army Sgt Giann C. Joya Mendoza  27, (Honduras) North Hollywood, CA  Baghdad, Iraq. JUL 01, 2007 Army Cpl Victor A. Garcia  22, Rialto, CA  Baghdad, Iraq (4^th Brigade, Ft Lewis, WA)
 JUL 02, 2007 Marine Lcpl Juan M. Garcia-Schill  20, Grant Pass, OR  Tagaddum, Iraq.  
JUL 06, 2007 Army Spc Roberto J. Causor, Jr  21, (Rio Rancho,NM) San Jose, CA  Samarra, Iraq.  
JUL 10, 2007 Army Capt Maria Inez Ortiz  40, (Bayamon,PR) Pennsauken, NJ (Nurse) (Bronze Star)                         Baghdad, Iraq.  
JUL 18, 2007 Army Spc Daniel E. Gomez  21, Warner Robin, GA  Adhamiyah, Iraq.  
JUL 18, 2007 Army Sgt 1^st Class Luis E. Gutierrez-Rosales  38, Bakerfield, CA  Adhamiyah, Iraq.  
JUL 22, 2007 Army Pfc Juan S. Restrepo  20, Pembroke, FL  Korengal Valley, Afghanistan.  
JUL 26, 2007 Army  Spc Jaime Rodriguez  19, Oxnard, CA  Saqlawiyah, Iraq.  
JUL 27, 2007 Army Cpl Julia Anita Diaz  21, Salem OR   ___________.  

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JUL 29, 2007 Army Ssgt Wilberto Suliveras  38, Humacao, PR    Taji, Iraq.  
JUL 31, 2007 Army Spc Zachariah  J. Gonzalez  23, Indiana, Baghdad, Iraq  
                       (3^rd Stryker Brigade, Ft Lewis, WA)  
JUL 31, 2007 Army Spc Daniel F. Reyes  24, San Diego, CA   Tunis, Iraq.  
AUG 02, 2007 Army  Ssgt  Fernando Santos   29, San Antonio, TX    Baghdad, Iraq 
                         (3^rd Stryker Brigade, Ft Lewis, WA)  
AUG 02, 2007 Army Spc Eric D. Salinas  25, Houston, TX  Baghdad, (3^rd Stryker Brigade, Ft Lewis WA AUG 02, 2007 Army SPC Christian Rojas Gallego  24, Loganville, GA  Baghdad, Iraq. 
                         (3^rd Stryker Brigade, Ft Lewis, WA)  
AUG 02, 2007 Army Msgt Julian Inlges Rio  52,  (Aquadillo,Pr) Anasco, PR  Baghdad, Iraq.                   

AUG 02, 2007 Marine Lcpl Christian Vasquez  20, Coalinga, CA  Qaim, Iraq.  
AUG 06, 2007 Army Cpl Juan M. Alcantara  22, NY  Baqubah, Iraq (3^rd Stryker Brigade, Ft Lewis, WA) AUG 13, 2007 Army Cpl Juan M. Lopez, Jr  23, (Florence, SC) San Antonio, TX  Qayyarah, Iraq.                           (Bronze Star and Purple Heart)  
AUG 22, 2007 Army  Pfc Omar E. Torres  20, Chicago, Il  Baghdad, Iraq,  
AUG 22, 2007 Army Spc Edgar E. Cardenas  34,  Lilburn, GA  Abu Ghraib, Iraq.  
AUG 23, 2007 Army Sgt 1^st Class Adrian M. Elizalde  30, (Renton,WA) North Bend, OR  
          Aziziyah, Iraq (1^st Special Forces Group Airborne Ft Lewis, WA) Bronze Star &  Purple Heart. AUG 26, 2007 Marine Lcpl Rogelio A. Ramirez  21, Pasadena, CA  Saglawiyah, Iraq.  
AUG 28, 2007 Army Sgt 1^st Class Rocky H. Herrera  43, Salt Lake City, Ut  Jaji, Afghanistan (Ft Lewis,WA  
SEP 02, 2007 Army Sgt 1^st Class Gregory A. Rodriguez  35,Weilman, MI  Ana Kalay, Afghanistan.  
SEP 05, 2007 Army Cpl Javier G. Parades  24, San Antonio, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
SEP 07, 2007 Army Spc Mirasol Heredia  19, El Monte, CA  Baghdad, Iraq (Brooke AMC San Antonio) SEP 07, 2007 Army Cpl Jason J. Hernandez   21, Streetboro, OH  Mosul, Iraq.  
SEP 10, 2007 Army Sgt Omar L. Mora  28, Texas City, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
SEP 10, 2007 Marine Cpl Carlos E. Gilorozco  23, San Jose, CA  Ashraf, Iraq.  
SEP 14, 2007 Army Cpl Jonathan Rivadeneira  22, Jackson Heights, NY  Baghdad, Iraq.  
SEP  27, 2007 Army Cpl Julia Anita Diaz  21, Salem, OR  
OCT 04, 2007 Army Sgt Ricardo A. Rodriguez  23, Arecibo, PR  Bakji, Iraq.  
OCT 06, 2007 Army Cpl Gilberto A. Meza  21, Oxnard, CA  Baghdad, Iraq  
OCT 17, 2007 Army Spc Vincent A. Madero  22, Port Hueneme, CA  Balad, Iraq.  
OCT 22, 2007 Navy Seaman Annamarie Sannicolas-Camacho  20, Panama City, FL  Bahrain.  
OCT 26, 2007 Army Spc Hugo V. Mendoza  29, Glendale, AZ  Korengal Valley, Afghanistan.

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NOV 18, 2007 USAF Tsgt Alejandro Ayala  26, Riverside, CA  Kuwait  
NOV 18, 2007 Army Cpl Marius L. Ferrero  26, Miami, FL  Ba’quabah, Iraq.  
NOV 20, 2007 Army Sgt Alfred G. Paraedez, Jr  32, Las Vega, NV  Baghdad, Iraq.  
NOV 27, 2007 Army Isaac T. Cortez  26, Bronx, NY  Amerli, Iraq.  
DEC 04, 2007 Army Sgt Erik J. Hernandez  26, Waldwick, NJ  Bavji, Iraq.

 2008:  (53)

JAN 08, 2008 Army  Spc  Juan E. Merlo  19, San Marcos, GA  Mugdadiyah, Iraq.  
FEB 05, 2008 Army Cpl  Miguel A. Baez III   32, Bonaire, GA  Mugdadiyah, Iraq.  
FEB 05, 2008 Army Ssgt Rafael A. Alicia Rivera  30, Bayamon, PR  Tallil, Iraq.  
FEB 20, 2008 Army Sgt  Conrad Alvarez  22, Big Spring, TX  Baghdad, Iraq  
                       (Army Commendation Medal, Natl. Def Svc Medal & GWOT medal).  
FEB 24, 2008 Army Spc  Orlando A. Perez  23, Houston, TX (parents from El Salvador) Baghdad, Iraq. MAR 07, 2007 Army Sgt  Jose A. Paniagua-Morales  22, Rell Gardens, CA  Balad, Iraq. 
                         (4^th Brigade Ft Lewis, WA )  
MAR 08, 2008 Army Sgt Gabriel Guzman   25, Hornbrook, CA  Gholam Haydar/Orgun-E Afghanistan. MAR 10, 2008 Army Ssgt Ernesto Guadalupe Cimacursti  25, Douglas, AZ  Baghdad, Iraq.  
MAR 24, 2008 Army Pfc George Delgado  21, Palmdale, CA  Baghdad, Iraq.  
MAR 24, 2008 Army Cpl Jose A. Rubio Hernandez  24, Mission, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
MAR 26, 2008 Army Cpl Steven L. Candelo  20, Houston, TX  Baghdad, Iraq.  
MAR 27, 2008 Army  Cpl Joshua A. Molina  20,  Houston, TX  Baghdad, Iraq  
APR 06, 2008 Army Capt  Ulises  Burgos-Cruz  29, Puerto Rico      Balad, Iraq.  
APR 14, 2008 Army Spc Arturo Huerta-Cruz  23, Clearwater, FL  Tuz, Irag  
                     (Posthumously Citizenship).  
APR 21, 2008  Navy Airman/Apprentice  Adrian M. Campos   22, El Paso, TX      Dubai.  
APR 23, 2008 Army Sgt Guadalupe Cervantes Ramirez  26, Ft Irwin, CA (Born:Mexicali, MX)                       Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.  
MAY 02, 2008 Marine Cpl Miguel A. Guzman  21, Norwalk, CA    Kamah, Iraq.  
MAY 02, 2008 Marine Sgt Glen E. Martinez  31, Boulder, CO  Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
MAY 06, 2008 Army Spc Alex D. Gonzalez  21, Mission, TX  Mosul, Iraq.  
MAY 09, 2008 Army Sgt Isaac Palomarez  26, Loveland, CA  Kapisa Prov. Afghanistan.  
MAY 14, 2008 Army Ssgt  Victor M. Cota  33, Tucson, AZ   Baghdad, Iraq.  
MAY 29, 2008 Army Sgt 1^st Class David Nunez  27, Los Angeles, CA  Shewan, Afghanistan.  
JUN 11, 2008 Marine Cpl Javier Perales, Jr  19, San Elizario, TX  Balad, Iraq.

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JUN 12, 2008 Army Sgt John D. Aragon  22, Antioch, CA  Balad, Iraq.  
JUN 20, 2008 Marine Sgt  Matthew Mendoza  24, San Antonio, TX  Helmand Prov. Afghanistan.  
JUN 21, 2008 Army Sgt  Nelson D. Rodriquez-Ramirez  22, Revere, MA  Kandahar, Afghanistan.  
JUN 25, 2008 Army Sgt Alejandro A. Dominquez  24, San Diego, CA  Mosul, Iraq.  
JUN 26, 2008 Marine Sgt Edgar A. Heredia   28,  Houston, TX  Farah Prov. Afghanistan (Purple Heart) JUN 29, 2008 Army Sgt 1^st Class Jeffery M.  Rada-Morales  32, Naranjito, PR   Kandahar, Afghanistan.
                        (Khosrow-E-Sofia).              
JUL 08, 2008 Army Sgt Alex R. Jimenez  25, Lawerence, MA (Dominican Rep.)  Juqfes Sakha, Iraq.  
JUL 13, 2008  Army Pfc  Sergio S. Abad  21, Morganfield, KY  Wanat, Afghanistan  
JUL 18, 2008 Army Sgt  Israel Garcia  24, Long Beach, CA  Wanat, Afghanistan.  
AUG 02, 2008 Army Pvt Jair De Jesus Garcia  29, Chatsworth, CA  Asadabad, Afghanistan. 
                     (ChowKay Valley)  
AUG 03, 2008 Army Sgt Jaime Gonzalez, Jr  40, Austin, TX    Kabul, Afghanistan.  
AUG 07, 2008 Marine Cpl Stewart S. Trejo  25, Whitefish, MT  Kamah, Iraq.  
AUG 14, 2008 Marine Lcpl  Juan Lopez-Castaneda  19, Mesa, AZ (Born: Zacatecas,MX)  
                 Sanqin, Afghanistan   (Natl. Def. Svc medal, GWOT medal and Purple Heart.)   
AUG 19, 2008 Army Sgt Jose E. Ulloa  23, New York, NY  Sadr City, Iraq    
AUG 28, 2008 Army Spc Michael L. Gonzalez  20, Spotswood, NJ  Baghdad, Iraq.  
AUG 28, 2008 Army Spc Jorge L. Feliz Nieve  26, Queens Village, NY  Mosul, Iraq.  
SEP 02, 2008 Army Sgt 1^st Class Gregory A. Rodriguez  35, Weidman, MI (Mt Pleasant,MI)                         Ana Kalay, Afghanistan  
SEP 17, 2008 Army Sgt Jason A. Vasquez  24, Chicago, IL  Gerdia Seria, Afghanistan.  
SEP 18, 2008 Army 1^st Lt Robert Vallejo II  28, Richland, TX  Tallil, Iraq (CH 47 Chinook pilot)  
SEP 18, 2008 Army 1^st Sgt Julio C. Ordonez  54, San Antonio, TX  Tallil, Iraq.  
SEP 20, 2008 Army Pfc  Joseph F. Gonzalez  18, Tucson, AZ  Korengal Valley, Afghanistan                           (Natl. Def. Svc medal and GWOT medal)  
SEP 20, 2008 USAF  Major  Rodolfo I. Rodriquez   34, El Paso, TX  Bombing of the Marriot Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan (Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Meritorious Svc medal & AF combat action medal.)  
SEP 29, 2008 Army Sgt 1^st Class Gary J. Vasquez  33, Round Lake, IL  Yakhchal, Afghanistan.  
OCT 11, 2008 Army Cpl Reuban M. Fernandez III  22, Abilene, TX  Mojar Al Kabir, Iraq.  
OCT 16, 2008 Army Sgt Federico G. Borjas  33, San Diego, CA  Bermel Dist Ctr. Afghanistan.  
OCT 22, 2008 Marine Cpl Adrian Robles  21  Scotts Bluff, NE  Helmand Prov. Afghanistan.                          (Purple Heart)  
NOV 12, 2008 Army Sgt Jose Regalado  23, Los Angeles, CA  Mosul, Iraq.  
NOV 13, 2008 Army Spc  Armando A. De La Paz  21, Riverside, CA   Baghdad, Iraq.  
 

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NOV 19, 2008 Marine Gunnery Sgt  Marcelo R. Velasco  40, Miami, FL   Anbar Prov. Iraq.  
DEC 28, 2008  Army  Spc  Tony J. Gonzales  20, Newman, CA  Sadr City, Iraq.