This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gonzalez Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AUZ.2ACEB/759 Message Board Post: No. 238-03 IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 13, 2003 DOD IDENTIFIES MARINE CASUALTIES The Department of Defense announced today the identities of three Marines killed in action during Operation Iraqi Freedom. They are: <snip> Cpl. Jesus A. Gonzalez, 22, of Indio, Calif., who was killed on April 12 while manning a checkpoint in Baghdad. He was assigned to 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, Twenty-Nine Palms, Calif. http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2003/b04132003_bt238-03.html