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Ramon A. Villatoro Jr., 19
Army, Private 1st Class
Based:
Ft. Carson, Colo.
Supporting:
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died:
July 24, 2005
Baghdad,
Iraq
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He was just a happy-go-lucky kid who had big dreams in a neighborhood that's economically depressed.
— Al Capilla, middle school principal, who urged Villatoro to apply for scholarships instead of enlisting
The son of Mexican and Salvadoran immigrants, Villatoro enlisted to get education money so he could become a doctor. When his middle school principal suggested he look elsewhere for school funding, Villatoro replied, "This is what I have to do."
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Three memories of Ramon A. Villatoro Jr.
Thank you Ramon For everything you had done for our country.
Just to let you know I am thinking of you. I have had the oporotunity to be in touch with your sister. She sounds like a wonderful person. Your brother is over there as we speak. I know you are watching over him.
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"
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