Iraq ambush claims 2nd Edinburg soldier

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April 15,2004
Sarah Ovaska and Ryan Gabrielson
Monitor Staff Writers

EDINBURG — An Edinburg soldier died early Wednesday after being ambushed in Fallujah, his family confirmed Wednesday evening. Sgt. Christopher Ramirez, 34, of Edinburg had been in the United States Army for the past 14 years, and originally was supposed to retire last December, his brother Eugene Ramirez said. Instead, his tour was extended another year.
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His niece Vanessa Rangel, 18, a high school student in Pharr, said she was considering going into the military but her uncle talked her out of it.She said she would never consider going into the military now that her uncle has died.“He was out already, they made him go back,” Rangel said. “He would be here with us.”

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I'll say I feel a draft coming on.

[keithyboy]

1. Any draft should begins with men over 50, net worth over 1 million

Straigt to the fron lines.

[0007]

2. I'll second that

[Qanisqineq]

3. happened to my husband, then he went to Iraq

Re: "He was out already, they made him go back,"