Nazario Serrano
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Age: 20
From: Irving, Texas
Assigned to the Combat Service Support Battalion 1, Combat Service Support Group 11, 1st Force Service Support Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Lance Cpl. Nazario Serrano was killed Jan. 30 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: January 30, 2005
Instead of a wedding, Marine’s family plans his funeral
Associated Press
DALLAS — The family of Lance Cpl. Nazario Serrano was expecting to plan for his wedding.
The 20-year-old Marine from the Dallas suburb of Irving was to return from Iraq in two weeks to meet his son, Landon Heath, born four months ago, and marry high-school sweetheart, Amanda Story.
“Instead of planning a wedding, we have to plan a funeral,” said Story, 19.
Serrano was killed Sunday when he was struck by small-arms fire in the chest in Iraq’s Anbar province. The vast province west of Baghdad includes the flashpoint cities of Fallujah and Ramadi.
No other details were released by the Marine Corps.
Serrano had seen photos of his son, but had not met him.
“He saw him only in pictures and on the Internet,” said Serrano’s father, Jesus. “They were just waiting for him to come back. ... He was going to get married and start...
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