De Leon, Lauro Garcia Jr
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Verified SPC De Leon, Lauro Garcia Jr, 20, a native of FLORESVILLE, TX, died serving in the Reserve, ARMY, 644TH TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, BEAUMONT, TX 77701-4698, during Operation Iraqi Freedom on September 8, 2004. Cause: HOSTILE.
Their Story
A Reserve member of the ARMY ? 644TH TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, BEAUMONT, TX 77701-4698 ? serving as SPC, De Leon, Lauro Garcia Jr was 20 and came from FLORESVILLE, TX.
On September 8, 2004, the ARMY lost SPC De Leon, Lauro Garcia Jr in BALAD, IRAQ. He was 20. The ARMY recorded the cause as HOSTILE.
Operation Iraqi Freedom began March 19, 2003 with the US-led invasion. The stated justification ? weapons of mass destruction ? was never found. Seven years of occupation, insurgency, and sectarian war followed, killing 4,418 Americans and an estimated 200,000 Iraqi civilians.
The ARMY classified his death as "HOSTILE" ? a category that matters to the families who must make sense of it. His name is documented in the Defense Casualty Analysis System at https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oif.
Explore Further
De Leon, Lauro Garcia Jr was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom (from March 2003 to August 2010). The conflict concluded in August 2010. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.
Among those documented in the same conflict: Kennedy, Brian Matthew, Beaupre, Ryan Anthony, Gutierrez, Jose, Waters-bey, Kendall Damon.
