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Jesus Angel Gonzalez, 22
Marines, Corporal
Based:
Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Supporting:
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died:
April 12, 2003
Baghdad,
Iraq
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I'm this close to losing my head. Everything's gotten real ugly.
— Jesus Angel Gonzalez, in one of his final letters to his wife, talking about sand storms ripping apart his tent
Gonzalez was born in Mexico into an activist family. In high school, he wore a brown beret and styled himself after Che Guevara. He dropped out of UC Riverside and joined the Marines but later told a family member that he had made a mistake by enlisting.
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