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Salvador "Junior" Guerrero, 21
Marines, Lance Corporal
Based:
Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Supporting:
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died:
June 9, 2006
Qaim,
Iraq
Gender:
Male
Hometown:
Whittier
High School:
Pioneer High (Whittier)
Burial:
Riverside National Cemetery
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He knew his mother would worry too much if she knew he was in Iraq.
— Laura Almanza, girlfriend, on Guerrero's decision to tell his mother he'd been sent to Japan
Determined to join the Marines, Guerrero buckled down, hitting the gym, running and dieting until he dropped from 250 pounds to 170.
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