Based: Camp Pendleton
Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, I Marine Expeditionary Force
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: August 6, 2004
Najaf, Iraq
Single, 1 child
Gender: Male
Hometown: Bell Gardens
High School: Bell Gardens High (Bell Gardens)
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Whittier
The oldest of seven children, Abad often offered guidance to his siblings, his brother said.Visit the Guest Book for Corporal Roberto Abad here and read more about him here.
"I looked up to him my whole life," said Diego Abad, who joined the Marines in February and is now [2004] in boot camp.
His brother's death, he said, has strengthened his determination to serve. "He would tell me to never give up on anything you believe in."
Roberto Abad, father of deceased U.S. Marine Cpl. Roberto Abad, 22, of Los Angeles, looks out the window after returning from the funeral services of Roberto, whose photographs and mementos are displayed on the altar set inside the family's living room in Bell Gardens, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 14, 2004. Abad was killed in Iraq Aug. 6, 2004. Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 794 U.S. soldiers have died _ 585 as a result of hostile action and 209 of non-hostile causes, according to the Defense Department. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
The above Abad photo was found here.
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