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Staff Sgt. Paul A. Velazquez

Hometown: San Diego, California, U.S.

Age: 29 years old

Died: November 2, 2003 in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Unit: Army, 2nd Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment, III Corps Artillery, Fort Sill, Okla.

Incident: Killed when insurgents shot down a CH-47 Chinook helicopter in Fallujah.

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