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American in His Heart and his Actions
 Staff Sgt. Riayan Tejeda, of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, is shown in this photo posted on the door of his family's apartment building in the Washington Heights section of New York, Monday, April 14, 2003. The 26-year-old Marine, a native of the Dominican Republic who wanted to become a U.S. citizen, was killed in the war in Iraq during a firefight in Baghdad according to officials and family . (AP Photo/Diane Bondareff)  Andre Tejeda, 22, brother of slain Staff Sgt. Riayan Tejeda of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, leaves his family's apartment building in the Washington Heights section of New York, Monday, April 14, 2003.  Relatives surround Rafaella del Carmen Tejeda Lora, the mother of Riayan A. Tejeda, U.S. Marine and a Dominican citizen killed in Iraq, at the conclusion of a funeral mass Monday, April 21, 2003, in the Washington Heights section of New York. From left, Tejeda's father Julio Cesar Tejeda, and above, Tejeda's brother Angel. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)  An unidentified relative of U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Riayan A. Tejeda holds his portrait and a white rose during a funeral mass for the slain Marine, Monday, April 21, 2003, in the Washington Heights section of New York. Tejeda was a Dominican citizen. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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