Jesse M. Zamora
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Age: 22
From: Las Cruces, N.M.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.
Incident: Army Spc. Jesse M. Zamora was killed Feb. 3 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee in Bayji, Iraq.
Died: February 03, 2006
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Las Cruces soldier killed in Iraq
By Felicia Fonseca
Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE — Paula Gonzalez had only one question when Army officials showed up at her Las Cruces home: Which of her two sons was killed in Iraq?
“When you have two over there, it’s like hurry up, say which one,” she said by telephone from her home Sunday as the family looked at pictures of the slain soldier, Cpl. Jesse Zamora, 22, her youngest son.
On Friday, Zamora was killed when a roadside bomb blew up near his Humvee in Beiji, Iraq. A piece of shrapnel flew up and hit him, she said.
As he slipped away, Zamora asked one of his friends to hug him, Gonzalez said.
“It’s just incredible how close these guys are. They love each other so much,” she said.
Her other son, Tyrel Zamora, is stationed in Baghdad, Iraq, and is on his way home to attend his brother’s funeral.
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into the house and gate of heaven,
to enter into that gate, and dwell in that house where there shall be
no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light;
no noise nor silence, but one equal music;
no fears nor hopes, but one equal possession;
no ends nor beginnings, but one equal eternity;
in the habitation of Thy glory and dominion,
world without end. Amen.
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