Erik Hernandez Silva, 22
Gloria Silva had taken her daughter, who serves in the Navy, to the bus station for the return trip to her duty station in Tennessee. When Silva returned home, three men in uniform were waiting outside her apartment with the news that her son, Erik, had died in Iraq.
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Sources: Times research, Defense Department, iCasualties.org
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