John D. Aragon, Army Sergeant -- Rest In Peace

John D. Aragon, 22

Army, Sergeant
Based: Ft. Campbell, Ky.
1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: June 12, 2008
Kadamiya, Iraq
Single
Gender: Male
Hometown: Antioch
High School: Antioch High (Antioch)

"He just always wanted to be in the Army," said his mother, Denise, a pair of her son's dogtags hanging around her neck. "He went to the recruitment office when he was still a senior in high school without telling me. I found out and made him go to (Los Medanos) College for a year and then make a decision.
"I told him maybe you'll meet the girl you're going to marry. You don't know what will happen."
The extra year did nothing to diminish Aragon's passion for the military. After arriving at Ft. Campbell, Ky., he called his parents.
"He said, 'I love the Army and the Army loves me,'" Denise Aragon said. "The two just clicked."

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His family did what they could to provide him the comforts of home, sending care packages with brown sugar Poptarts (one of his favorites), granola bars and canned oysters. During his last conversation with his mother on June 4, he said he'd be home next month for 18 days and asked for a packet of Flaming Hot Cheetos.