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Robert M Rodriguez
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Name: Marine Cpl. Robert M. Rodriguez
Age: 21
From: Queens, N.Y.
Assigned to 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Incident: Marine Cpl. Robert M. Rodriguez was killed in action near the Euphrates River northwest of Nasiriyah, Iraq.
Died: March 27, 2003
Age: 21
From: Queens, N.Y.
Assigned to 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Incident: Marine Cpl. Robert M. Rodriguez was killed in action near the Euphrates River northwest of Nasiriyah, Iraq.
Died: March 27, 2003
As the baby in a family of five children, Rodriguez looked up to his brothers and sisters, and wanted to make them proud.
His family valued education, but he found school boring, and so after he received his high-school diploma, Rodriguez joined the Marines at age 17. He became a member of the 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, based at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif. He was sent to Kuwait in January as a corporal.
“He loved the Marines,” said his sister Hyda Hernandez-Lopez. “We were all so very proud of him. He was our hero.”
Rodriguez was killed March 25 when the tank he was in plunged off a bridge and into the Euphrates...
Occupation
1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Incident
Marine Cpl. Robert M. Rodriguez was killed in action near the Euphrates River northwest of Nasiriyah, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Robert M Rodriguez
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.