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Nicanor Alvarez
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Name: Marine Cpl. Nicanor Alvarez
Age: 22
From: San Bernardino, Calif.
Assigned to 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Cpl. Nicanor Alvarez was killed Aug. 21 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: August 21, 2004
Marine killed in Iraq remembered for jokes, pranks
Associated Press
Age: 22
From: San Bernardino, Calif.
Assigned to 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Cpl. Nicanor Alvarez was killed Aug. 21 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: August 21, 2004
Marine killed in Iraq remembered for jokes, pranks
Associated Press
COLTON, Calif. — To his family, Nicanor Angel Alvarez was a prankster at heart who loved to surprise them with imaginative tricks. Once, the lance corporal sent a video home announcing he wouldn’t be returning from the military for two years, while all along he was hiding in his car just outside the house.
Now the family is preparing to say goodbye. Alvarez died in combat on Saturday in Iraq’s Anbar province. He was killed with three other members of the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, according to the Department of Defense.
After the family learned of his death, “We had to ask, is this one of his jokes?” said his sister-in-law, Lorena Gonzalez.
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1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident
Marine Cpl. Nicanor Alvarez was killed Aug. 21 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Nicanor Alvarez
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.