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Juan C. Venegas, 21
Marines, Lance Corporal
Based:
Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Supporting:
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died:
April 7, 2005
Fallouja,
Iraq
Gender:
Male
Hometown:
Simi Valley
High School:
Simi Valley High (Simi Valley)
Burial:
Assumption Cemetery, Simi Valley
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He was like a machine. He would just keep going. He carried a backpack filled with potatoes when he went running, for extra weight. He would go nonstop at the basketball games. Everyone else would get tired, but he wouldn't.
— Erica Venegas, sister
Venegas saw the Marine Corps as a place where he could excel in activities that would stretch his limits. He was in a hurry to graduate from high school so he could join.
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1976 Simi Valley High School mid term Grad. Thank you for the ultimate sacrifice so that the people in America can continue living free. There are alot of people in this country that have no clue, respect or honor for those like you that paid the ultimate price to live the way that we do in America. Living free is not free, it comes at a very high price. You payed that price for the Country you loved. Although I never knew you Juan, I thank you and honor you. God Bless you, Ronald Weber
PS. Parent of a US Marine
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