Carlos Pineda
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Age: 23
From: Los Angeles
Assigned to Headquarters Company, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Incident: Marine Cpl. Carlos Pineda was killed June 24 by enemy small-arms fire while conducting combat operations in Fallujah, Iraq.
Died: June 24, 2005
California Marine killed in Iraq
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — His 5-year-old sister keeps asking when Marine Cpl. Carlos Pineda will come home. Although more than a 100 people packed into his funeral, she insists the man in the wooden box was a doll, not her brother.
“What do I say to her?” asked Pineda’s mother, Silvia Hernandez, on Thursday from her home in Los Angeles. Hernandez buried her oldest son last week after the Camp Lejeune, N.C.-based Marine was killed during combat in Fallujah, Iraq.
“I can tell her that he died doing what he believed in, but the pain is the same,” she said.
Pineda, 23, died July 1, as a result of wounds from enemy small-arms fire. He was assigned to 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force.
Pineda, a native of El Salvador, grew up fast in East Los Angeles. His father was murdered by local gang members when Pineda was 9, and he quickly became the man of...
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Prayers & Messages
LOVE YOUR BRO,
JOE
Thank you for all the the smiles you put on our faces. It was a pleasure meeting you. Now I know how it feels to miss somebody that you deeply care about. See you soon Carlos and know that you will deeply be missed.
Love your homie,
Tony
love, your brother from another mother
adrian
Thank you for your service and for fighting for the things you believe in. That is the American Way. I am so sorry to have you lost to this war. May God comfort your family and friends and may you continue to watch over them from the other side.
May you rest in peace.
Sincerely,
Mary