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Aaron J Contreras
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Name: Marine Capt. Aaron J. Contreras
Age: 31
From: Sherwood, Ore.
Assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA)-169, Marine Aircraft Group-39, Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Capt. Aaron J. Contreras was killed in a helicopter crash in southern Iraq.
Died: March 30, 2003
Religious father of three was ‘determined at everything’
By Patrick McMahon
USA Today
Age: 31
From: Sherwood, Ore.
Assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA)-169, Marine Aircraft Group-39, Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Capt. Aaron J. Contreras was killed in a helicopter crash in southern Iraq.
Died: March 30, 2003
Religious father of three was ‘determined at everything’
By Patrick McMahon
USA Today
To his hometown parish priest, Marine Capt. Aaron Contreras, 31, was a devout Catholic who knew his Bible inside and out.
“He was a very unusual young man in a spiritual way,” recalled the Rev. Tom McCarthy, a priest at St. Francis Catholic Church in Sherwood, Ore., a suburb of Portland.
“Aaron was very religious, and believed in his church,” said his father Edward, a Vietnam veteran.
Contreras played football, basketball and ran some track in high school.
“He was determined in everything he did,” his father said.
Contreras and two others died...
Occupation
Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA)-169, Marine Aircraft Group-39, Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident
Marine Capt. Aaron J. Contreras was killed in a helicopter crash in southern Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Aaron J Contreras
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.