Jason M. Morales, 20

Army, Private 1st Class

Based: Ft. Riley, Kan.

1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division

Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom

Died: April 18, 2007

Baghdad (northwest area), Iraq

Single

Gender: Male

Hometown: Montebello

High School: Montebello High (Montebello)

Burial: Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier

Morales was an avid skateboarder who played guitar and loved Metallica and baseball, according to his obituary in the Whittier Daily News.

Jay-D H. Ornsby-Adkins, 04/28/2007

Michael M. Rojas, 04/18/2007

16 memories of Jason M. Morales

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I was the older 1 of the neighborhood kids..i remember playing base ball in the neighborhood streets and at Rodriguez Park with him...i remember wrestling with him out in the front lawn..also remember his parents would get mad at him 4 wrestling but it was all good memories:)..Me being the oldest till this day i felt like they were all my responsibility..i watched out 4 them when they were around me..Jason was a good kid..got better grades than i did lol..he was very athletic..energetic..lovable..he was like a brother 2 me..i remember he came over my mothers apartment in his military uniform..and told my family that he was being shipped to Iraq..i was like wow it was like a shock..i had got married and moved 2 another city so i didnt know he was in the military..i shook his hand hugged him pat him on the back and told him hurry up and come back so we can play base ball and wrestle..I remember Jason was more of a leader than a follower..he was the 1 that started the whole skating deal..playing hide and go seek or play guns..marbles..pogs..i think about him every now and then and.....love the boy...hes my bro...1 of the guys...I will always remember him and miss him...My brother Jason thank u 4 fighting 4 our freedom..4 making the world a better place 2 live in..4 letting my son enjoy life n a country that believes n freedom i thank u agin Jason Mathew Morales may u R.I.P brother..1 day i will join u and we b playing pogs and marbles again.

” — Giovanni Tinoco, November 15, 2010 at 9:51 a.m.

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