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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-11-06 06:00 PM
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It's true! Doggoned if they ain't takin' them low-payin' jobs
that other (whiter) Americans don't want to do...

Modesto-area Marine killed in Iraq
Associated Press

CERES, Calif. - A 24-year-old woman who was inspired to join the Marines after her younger twin brothers enlisted was fatally shot in the head in Iraq over the weekend.

Lance Cpl. Juana Navarro, of Ceres, was killed Saturday while guarding other soldiers during a mission in the Iraqi province of Anbar, said Marine Capt. Donn Puca.

"This was something she always wanted to do," said her older sister, Beatriz Lopez.

She left for duty in May, her family said.

Navarro was born in Michoacan, Mexico, and she and a twin sister became U.S. citizens at age 13. She graduated from Johansen High School in Modesto in 2000, where she volunteered with special education children...

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...just like them republicans are sayin'.
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peacebird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-11-06 06:04 PM
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1. So sad. What a waste and yet all some people can see is the color of her
skin...

:cry:
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