Based: Ft. Bragg, N.C.
2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died: July 7, 2007
Samarra, Iraq
Single, 1 child
Gender: Male
Hometown: San Jose
High School: William C. Overfelt High (San Jose)
Burial: Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose
*****Causor occupied a special spot in the family hierarchy. Not only was he Roberto and Rocio Causor's firstborn, and their only son, he was the first grandchild on his mother's side of the family, so he never lacked for attention.
Growing up in San Jose, he was the giggling, outspoken boy who loved to play with toy guns and argued, fruitlessly, for his father to let him buy a real one. The kid who never liked to do his homework but who studied hard the last two years of high school so he could graduate early and join the Army. The tough but loving mentor to his younger sisters, Ruby, Mitzy Yareli and Wendy.
The plan was for Causor to return in October for good, to marry Contreras and then move together to New Mexico to live for a time with his parents. In March, he gave his father $11,000 to help him pay some of the bills that had accumulated since his parents' clothing store was forced to close.
The son of Mexican parents, Causor was born in San Jose and spent many of his childhood and teen years here. He was proud of his roots and his family's adopted country where several relatives started their own construction and electrical businesses, said his uncle Francisco Causor.
By joining the military when he graduated in 2004 from Overfelt High School, "in a way that was kind of a payback, in gratitude," for the success and freedom many of his relatives enjoyed in the United States, Francisco Causor said.
Read the rest here.
Read more about Army Specialist Roberto "Junior" Causor Jr. here and visit his guestbook here
He was my soldier and a good one at that. Never complained and always did as he was told. He has a beautiful baby girl that he never got to meet. We all miss him. Here is a picture so he will not be forgotten.
SSG Jason Wheeler
Previously posted at Boom3 on Wednesday, July 7, 2010.
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