Jocelyn L. Carrasquillo
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Age: 28
From: Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 120th Infantry Regiment, Army National Guard, Wilmington, N.C.
Incident: North Carolina Army National Guard Spc. Jocelyn L. Carrasquillo was killed March 13 when an improvised explosive device hit his vehicle on the main supply route in Iraq.
Died: March 13, 2004
N.C. National Guard member killed in Iraq remembered
Associated Press
GOLDSBORO, N.C. — More than 900 people descended upon a church on March 21 to remember Spc. Jocelyn “Joce” Carrasquillo, a North Carolina National Guard member killed by a bomb in Iraq.
Carrasquillo, a member of the Wilmington-based 120th Infantry Regiment, was the second soldier from the state National Guard to die in Iraq. He later was interred with military honors.
A slideshow of a young man who would have been 30 a week and a half after his funeral welcomed Carrasquillo’s fellow soldiers, friends, co-workers, and churchgoers. They filled the 890-seat First Pentecostal Holiness Church past capacity.
Carrasquillo’s mother, Isabel Salgado Carrasquillo, kissed her son before the casket closed.
Carrasquillo’s friend, Kenny Wilson, said he hoped the standing-room-only gathering would bring comfort to Carrasquillo’s parents and three...