Manuel Lopez III
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Age: 20
From: Cape Coral, Fla.
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Incident: Army Spc. Manuel Lopez III was killed April 12 when his Humvee was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in Baghdad.
Died: April 12, 2005
Cape Coral soldier killed in Iraq
Associated Press
FORT MYERS, Fla. — A Cape Coral soldier serving in Iraq talked by phone with his wife about shots for their 4-month-old daughter 16 hours before the Army notified her of his death.
Spc. Manuel Lopez III, 20, was killed Tuesday when a rocket-propelled grenade hit his Humvee while he was on street patrol in Baghdad, the Pentagon said Thursday. He was serving with the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, based out of Fort Stewart, Ga.
Lopez worked as a signal support systems specialist in communications, and his primary assignment was repairing and maintaining communication systems, his wife, Kira, told The News-Press of Fort Myers for Friday editions.
“He was supposed to be the guy behind the front lines keeping everything going,” she said. “He was supposed to be well-protected. That’s why it hit me so hard.”
Kira Lopez got word of...
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Prayers & Messages
I am sorry for your lose. I hope you know that your son will be blessed because of his unselfish act of sacrifice.