HR 9165 2003
1	House Resolution
2	A resolution honoring the memory of United States Marine
3	Corporal Armando Ariel Gonzalez, a fallen American hero.
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5	WHEREAS, Armando Ariel Gonzalez left Cuba on a raft in
6	1995, bound for Miami with his father and younger brother, and
7	settled with his family in Hialeah, where he attended Miami-Dade
8	Community College and learned to speak English, and
9	WHEREAS, roughly two and one-half years ago, Armando
10	Gonzalez enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and soon
11	rose to Corporal as a member of a unit based in Beaufort, South
12	Carolina, and
13	WHEREAS, seven months ago, Corporal Gonzalez married Liud
14	Mila Gonzalez, the love of his life, and was eagerly
15	anticipating the birth of the couple's first child, and
16	WHEREAS, Corporal Gonzalez, a driver assigned to Marine
17	Wing Support Squadron 273, Marine Wing Support Group 27, 2nd
18	Marine Aircraft Wing, stationed at Logistics Supply Area Viper
19	in Iraq, was crushed to death when a commercial refueling truck
20	under which he was working collapsed, and
21	WHEREAS, the April 14, 2003, death of Corporal Armando
22	Gonzalez, 25, was the first suffered by the Beaufort base and
23	the first of the Iraqi conflict known to have been inflicted
24	upon a resident of the City of Hialeah in Miami-Dade County,
25	NOW, THEREFORE,
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27	Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of
28	Florida:
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30	That the House of Representatives honors the memory of
31	United States Marine Corporal Armando Ariel Gonzalez and joins
32	his wife, family members, friends, and community in mourning the
33	untimely death of a fallen American hero.
34	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be
35	presented to Mrs. Liud Mila Gonzalez and her as-yet unborn child
36	as a tangible token of the sentiments expressed herein.