Jose L Mora
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Age: 26
From: Bell Gardens, Calif.
Assigned to C Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.
Incident: Army Spc. Jose L. Mora was killed Oct. 24 in an enemy mortar attack in Samaria, Iraq.
Died: October 24, 2003
Spc. Jose Mora knew he'd have to go back to high school, lose weight and get in shape if he wanted to join the Army. Soon after his brother was killed in an auto accident, he made good on his promises. "He knew he had to make something of himself, please his parents and provide for his wife and family," said Lt. Col. John Powledge of the Fort Carson soldier from Bell Gardens, Calif. The 26-year-old father of three was killed Oct. 23 in a mortar attack in Samarra, 70 miles north of Baghdad. Mora, who worked his way up from a rifleman to a Bradley fighting vehicle driver to a Bradley gunner, had what it took to be an Army leader, said his first sergeant, Glenn Robinson. "Toward the end of every month he always had two questions for me," Robinson said....