Sunday, June 20, 2010

Du Hải Trần

Army Staff Sergeant Hạ Sĩ Nhất
Du Hải Trần

Du Hai Tran, 30

Army, Staff Sergeant
Based: Vilseck, Germany
Fires Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: June 20, 2008
Baqubah, Iraq
Married, 1 child
Gender: Male
Hometown: Reseda
High School: Chatsworth Senior High (Chatsworth)
Foreign Country of Birth: Vietnam
Burial: San Fernando Mission Cemetery

Tran grew up in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He escaped the country by boat with family members, and lived for several years in a refugee camp in Thailand. Tran was a teenager when he arrived in California. He was killed while on patrol in Baqubah, Iraq, when a roadside bomb exploded.
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