U.S. Soldier Killed in Iraq, Buried with Honors in Mexico
 Wire services
A 19-year-old U.S. soldier was buried in Mexico on Thursday after he was killed in Iraq.
Pvt. Ernesto Rodolfo Guerra, a U.S. citizen whose family was originally from Mexico, died a day after he was injured in a July 28 Humvee crash in Baghdad. Army officials listed him from Long Beach, California, and said he had been assigned to 43rd Brigade Troops Battalion, Third Infantry Division out of Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Guerra's body was returned to Mexico on Wednesday, and buried Thursday with military honors in San Francisco del Rincon, in central Mexico.
Guerra's mother, Marνa Valadez, attended the funeral and said her son's death "wasn't justified."
"Our sons don't have to die," she said. "They are only boys in a man's body."
As of Wednesday, at least 1,860 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
At least 1,479 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The figures include five military civilians. |
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