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Cpl. Robert M. Rodriguez

Hometown: Queens, New York, U.S.

Age: 21 years old

Died: March 25, 2003 in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Unit: Marines, 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Div., Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Ctr., Twentynine Palms, Calif.

Incident: Killed when tank plunged off a bridge in the middle of the night and landed upside-down in the Euphrates River.


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