California’s War Dead

    William C. James, 24

    Marines, Corporal
    Fallouja, Iraq
    Gender: Male
    He was our big brother and we all just looked up to him.
    — Lynn Booth, sister

    James, nicknamed the "Cheshire Cat" by his family, moved to Huntington Beach in high school from a small town in North Carolina, according to an Associated Press obituary. Both his grandfathers and father served in the military and he planned to be in the Marines for 20 years.
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