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House Resolution |
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A resolution honoring the memory of United States Marine |
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Corporal Armando Ariel Gonzalez, a fallen American hero. |
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WHEREAS, Armando Ariel Gonzalez left Cuba on a raft in |
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1995, bound for Miami with his father and younger brother, and |
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settled with his family in Hialeah, where he attended Miami-Dade |
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Community College and learned to speak English, and |
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WHEREAS, roughly two and one-half years ago, Armando |
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Gonzalez enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and soon |
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rose to Corporal as a member of a unit based in Beaufort, South |
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Carolina, and |
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WHEREAS, seven months ago, Corporal Gonzalez married Liud |
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Mila Gonzalez, the love of his life, and was eagerly |
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anticipating the birth of the couple's first child, and |
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WHEREAS, Corporal Gonzalez, a driver assigned to Marine |
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Wing Support Squadron 273, Marine Wing Support Group 27, 2nd |
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Marine Aircraft Wing, stationed at Logistics Supply Area Viper |
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in Iraq, was crushed to death when a commercial refueling truck |
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under which he was working collapsed, and |
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WHEREAS, the April 14, 2003, death of Corporal Armando |
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Gonzalez, 25, was the first suffered by the Beaufort base and |
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the first of the Iraqi conflict known to have been inflicted |
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upon a resident of the City of Hialeah in Miami-Dade County, |
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NOW, THEREFORE, |
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Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of |
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Florida: |
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That the House of Representatives honors the memory of |
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United States Marine Corporal Armando Ariel Gonzalez and joins |
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his wife, family members, friends, and community in mourning the |
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untimely death of a fallen American hero. |
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be |
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presented to Mrs. Liud Mila Gonzalez and her as-yet unborn child |
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as a tangible token of the sentiments expressed herein. |