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The first American combat casualty of the war in Iraq - U.S.M.C.
AP
| 24 March, 2003
Posted on 03/24/2003 9:36:57 PM PST by Happy2BMe
U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Jose Gutierrez, 22, is shown in this undated family handout photo. Gutierrez is the first combat casualty of the war in Iraq (news - web sites), according to U.S. military officials. (AP Photo/Family handout photo)
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: american; casualty; inmemoriam; iraq; josegutierrez; war
No greater love hath any man than he would lay down his life for another.
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posted on
03/24/2003 9:36:57 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
To: Happy2BMe
Sadly, he goes into a great pantheon of American heroes.
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posted on
03/24/2003 9:42:39 PM PST
by
Arkinsaw
To: Happy2BMe
Thank you Corporal, and rest in peace.
My father did four years in the USMC (1946-49), and went on to do 20 years in the USAF. Yet when he speaks of his military career, it is always his years as a Marine that he speaks of most fondly. I try to imagine him as a 16-year-old kid going into the Corps, and coming out in 1949 like this young man.
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posted on
03/24/2003 9:49:07 PM PST
by
AzSteven
To: Happy2BMe
Semper Fi Lance Corporal.
L
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posted on
03/24/2003 9:50:16 PM PST
by
Lurker
(When I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you.)
To: Arkinsaw
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posted on
03/24/2003 9:51:06 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(HOLLYWOOD:Ask not what U can do for your country, ask what U can do for Iraq!)
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To: Texas_Jarhead
(he came to America as an illegal alien)
Yes, but he came to be an American. Thats an important distinction to make.
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posted on
03/24/2003 9:54:34 PM PST
by
Arkinsaw
To: Texas_Jarhead
End that crap right here. Its been debated on other threads, leave this thread for honoring the fallen hero.
To: Texas_Jarhead
"(he came to America as an illegal alien)" . . . And he left this world convinced he was a man and had a vision of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness so great he was willing to die for it.
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posted on
03/24/2003 9:56:03 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(HOLLYWOOD:Ask not what U can do for your country, ask what U can do for Iraq!)
To: Texas_Jarhead
Your tagline tells me you have a brown thumb.
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posted on
03/24/2003 9:57:24 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
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To: Texas_Jarhead
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posted on
03/24/2003 10:18:41 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(HOLLYWOOD:Ask not what U can do for your country, ask what U can do for Iraq!)
To: Happy2BMe
Hey guys I saw local LA news just minute ago they have inteview with this Marine foster mom actually he came over to Gutamlaria illegally
He thought so much of his new country that he decided become US Marine I got give props to this dude
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posted on
03/24/2003 10:23:47 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
(GAME OVER Saddam your a** is grass)
To: SevenofNine
"He thought so much of his new country that he decided become US Marine I got give props to this dude." The same thing that brought him to the United States is the same thing that made Marines storm the shores of Tripoli.
He didn't die in vain.
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posted on
03/24/2003 10:29:35 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(HOLLYWOOD:Ask not what U can do for your country, ask what U can do for Iraq!)
To: Happy2BMe
Semper Fi. He is already guarding the streets of Heaven...
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To: dandelion
ping for fallen heroes
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posted on
03/27/2003 7:26:59 AM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(HOLLYWOOD:Ask not what U can do for your country, ask what U can do for Iraq!)
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