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Ramon Mateo
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Name: Marine Lance Cpl. Ramon Mateo
Age: 20
From: Suffolk, N.Y.
Assigned to Headquarters and Service Company, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Ramon Mateo was killed Sept. 24 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: September 24, 2004
Age: 20
From: Suffolk, N.Y.
Assigned to Headquarters and Service Company, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Ramon Mateo was killed Sept. 24 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: September 24, 2004
Ramon Mateo surprised everyone with a sudden visit from Iraq early this month. First, he went to his mother's workplace, stood silently behind her as her colleagues beamed, and savored the expression on her face when she turned around. Then, in a gleeful succession of lightning-strike visits, he surprised other members of his family. But, after a two-week leave, he was gone, back to Iraq. Mateo, 20, of Suffolk County, N.Y., died Sept. 24 in Anbar province. A 2002 high school graduate, he was based at Twentynine Palms, Calif. "It hasn't really sunk in yet, because he was here only a week ago," said his sister, Sonia Rivera. "It was almost as if God sent him one more time to say goodbye." Mateo's stepfather, Miguel Rivera, who works at a...
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Ramon Mateo
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.