Based: Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Regiment
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: November 7, 2006
Kirkuk, Iraq
Married, 1 child
Gender: Male
Hometown: San Diego
High School: Morse High (San Diego)
Foreign Country of Birth: Philippines
Burial: Eternal Gardens Memorial Park, Philippines
A 2000 graduate of San Diego's Morse High School was killed last week in Iraq, leaving behind his young family and a grieving Filipino community.Read the rest of the article here. Read more about Army Staff Sergeant Richwell A. Doria here, here and here and visit his Guest Book here.
Army Staff Sgt. Richwell A. Doria, 25, died Nov. 7 in Kirkuk after being struck by small-arms fire during an air-assault mission, the Pentagon publicly announced yesterday.
He is survived by his wife, Jasmine, and the couple's 4-month-old baby, Jada, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and many relatives in San Diego and the Philippines.
Doria grew up in San Diego after moving from the Philippines when he was 11. His parents sent him to the United States so he would have opportunities he couldn't get back home, said his aunt Zenaida Anderson.
He joined the Army out of high school. At that time he dismissed relatives' suggestions that he join the Navy, as an uncle had done.
He said he will do his own thing and not follow in anyone's footsteps, his aunt said, sitting at the kitchen table of her Skyline neighborhood home, and surrounded by printouts of e-mailed photographs of her nephew.
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