Jose F. Gonzalez Rodriguez, 19

Marines, Private 1st Class

Based: Camp Pendleton

1st Supply Battalion, 1st Force Service Support Group

Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom

Died: May 12, 2003

Camp Chesty, Iraq

Gender: Male

Hometown: Norwalk

High School: John H. Glenn High (Norwalk)

Foreign Country of Birth: Mexico

An immigrant from Mexico, Rodriguez was an honor student and played on his high school baseball team, according to his Associated Press obituary. He was recruited by the Marines just after high school.

Douglas Jose Marenco-Reyes, 05/18/2003

Osbaldo Orozco, 04/25/2003

12 memories of Jose F. Gonzalez Rodriguez

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It seems like only yesterday you were in my class learning to speak English and trying to make sense of this crazy American culture. You were so quiet and soft spoken. It took you about a year, then you fit right in with all the other students. I remember your intelligence and great sense of humor. Students like you make teaching worthwhile for teachers like me. I was more than a little proud seeing you go from knowing almost no English, to graduating with honors in a span of about three years. Your friends called you by your nickname, "Camaney." Camaney was a Mexican comedian known for being a ladies man and for being very funny. Your two younger sisters and your parents were very proud of you when you joined the armed services. You carried the hopes and dreams of your family. It makes me more than a little sad when I think of them and I think what you could have been. I'll always remember you.

” — Mr. Morales, May 19, 2010 at 10:47 a.m.

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