Ricardo Barraza, 24

Army, Staff Sergeant

Based: Ft. Lewis, Wash.

2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment

Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom

Died: March 18, 2006

Ramadi, Iraq

Engaged

Gender: Male

Hometown: Shafter

High School: Shafter High (Shafter)

Burial: Hillcrest Memorial Park, Bakersfield

After six tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, Barraza had been scheduled to return home to marry his fiancee. Their wedding would have taken place just weeks after he was killed. About 700 people attended his funeral Mass.

Joseph J. Duenas, 03/30/2006

Dale G. Brehm, 03/18/2006

12 memories of Ricardo Barraza

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To the family and friends of Sgt Barraza,there is a wonderful hope that I would like to share with you from the Bible.These years that have passed by have left your loved one in a sleep like state, for Eccl. 9:5 states,"The living are conscious that they will die;but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all." Soon, the promised resurrection hope will take place here on earth, where Jesus stated at John 5: 28 & 29. "Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out,..." This wonderous hope is soon to take place here on the earth.Further, lost loved ones will
be resurrected back to a cleansed, secure, peaceful, paradise earth, where war will be no more. These conditions are ones that a loving god, Jehovah, originally intended for mankind and the earth. Gen 1:28. Our dear loved ones will return, recognizable, without the effects of war, having their life pattern reactivated. What an unbelievably grand time that will be! May these promises give you hope and encouragement for your future and that of your lost loved one.

” — phyllis covarrubias, March 11, 2013 at 8:59 p.m.

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