
LOS ANGELES — A Camp Pendleton Marine whose father’s service in the Vietnam War inspired him to join the military has been killed in Iraq.
Pfc. Fernando B. Hannon, 19, died Aug. 15 in an explosion in the country’s volatile Anbar province. Hannon, a rifleman deployed about two months in Iraq, had been assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force.
Hannon had a younger brother and three older sisters and was described by his family as warm and affectionate.
“He just glowed,” his sister Sonya Hannon told the Los Angeles Times.
His fiance, Ruth Ponce, 21, remembered him as unassuming and earnest. She was so...