Based: Camp Pendleton
1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: August 2, 2007
Rawah, Iraq
Single
Gender: Male
Hometown: Coalinga
High School: Cambridge Continuation High School (Coalinga)
Burial: Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Coalinga, Calif.
At the time of his death, Vazquez was making plans to attend college. He dreamed of becoming a doctor so that his mother, a farmworker, could retire from the backbreaking labor of harvesting almonds.See the guest book for Lance Corporal Cristian Vazquez here; read more about Vazquez here and here.
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Lance Corporal Vasquez. Lance Corporal Strain. Camp Pendleton. I have a picture of a Marine, Camp Pendleton based and onward, hanging on my dining room wall. Your posts regarding these men (and women) bring to my mind one word: sacrifice. Sacrifice. Greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for another. Thank you so much.
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