Orlando A. Perez
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Age: 23
From: Houston
Assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, Vilseck, Germany
Incident: Army Spc. Orlando A. Perez died Feb. 24 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds sustained from small-arms fire during dismounted operations.
Died: February 24, 2008
Soldier from Houston killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
Army Spc. Orlando A. Perez’s wife said he never had a sad look on his face. “If things were going bad, he always made the other person feel better,” said April Perez.
Perez, 23, of Houston, was killed Feb. 24 in Baghdad of wounds from small-arms fire. He graduated high school in 2003 and was assigned to Vilseck, Germany.
Perez used rest and recuperation leave from Iraq to spend a week with his mother, Nicolasa Arevalo, in New York and a week with his wife in Texas.
During his time in the Army, Perez, whose parents emigrated from El Salvador, was able to travel around Europe with his wife, his high school sweetheart.
“I’m glad he got a couple of years to travel,” April Perez said. “He got to see Seattle and Germany, Italy and England. He wanted to travel, and the Army allowed him to do that.”
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