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Updated: 7:33 PM Apr 6, 2006
Services Held for Fort Hood Soldier Slain in Iraq
Funeral services were held Wednesday in Puerto Rico for a 26-year old Fort Hood soldier who died in a roadside bombing in Iraq.
Posted: 7:05 PM Apr 6, 2006 |
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Services were held Wednesday in Puerto Rico for Spc. Jose Rivera-Serrano, 26, who died two days after Christmas in a roadside bombing in Baghdad.
Rivera-Serrano was assigned to the 2d Battalion of Fort Hood’s 5th Cavalry Regiment.
An honor guard of soldiers from Fort Hood and Rivera-Serrano’s widow, Barbara Sanfiorenzo, arrived Tuesday in Puerto Rico with the soldier's body.
Rivera was buried in the Memorial Cemetery of Mayaguez, the west-coast Puerto Rican town where he was born an where his parents still live.
Mayaguez Mayor Jose Guillermo Rodriguez declared three days of mourning, in honor of the first soldier from Mayaguez killed in the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
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