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Paul A. Velazquez, 29
Army, Staff Sergeant
Based:
Ft. Sill, Okla.
Supporting:
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died:
November 2, 2003
Fallouja (near),
Iraq
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Paul was just one of those great kids you remember forever. He worked very hard at every practice, very bright, very disciplined, very good to have on the squad.
— Mike Bakwell, vice principal at Mira Mesa High School, where Velazquez was a wrestler
Velazquez enlisted in the Army after graduating from high school in 1992. He died when the helicopter he was in was hit by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile outside the town of Fallouja. Fifteen other soldiers were killed in the crash and 20 were injured.
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