California’s War Dead

    Joshua P. Mattero

    Joshua P. Mattero, 29

    Army, Staff Sergeant
    Baqubah, Iraq
    Gender: Male
    Hometown: Chula Vista
    Josh was happy. He was outgoing, always had a big smile. Everything was fun...Even cleaning the house was fun. It was like a game.
    — Sara Mattero, mother

    A former Eagle Scout, Mattero became a bomb disposal technician in the Army. He was killed when another bomb exploded nearby as he was disarming an IED. His goal was to join a police department's bomb squad after he left the military.
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    One memory of Joshua P. Mattero

    THANK YOU!!!!!!! For your sacrifice, words do little to describe our sincere gratitude. However, There is a hope for a future where such wonderful people will not have to die in the wars of the world. ISAIAH 2:4 And he will certainly render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore....REV 21:3,4-"death will be no more"

    — krystal
    March 31, 2012 at 10:41 p.m.
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