California’s War Dead

    Ricardo Cerros Jr.

    Ricardo Cerros Jr., 24

    Army, Specialist
    Logar province, Afghanistan
    Gender: Male
    Hometown: Salinas
    He would train harder than everyone. He kind of had that approach with anything work-related.
    — Mike Clark , friend from college

    Cerros died Oct. 8 in Logar Province, Afghanistan, when insurgents attacked his unit using small arms fire.
    Times obituary
    « James B. Wilke, 10/10/2011
    Garrett A. Fant, 09/26/2011 »
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