SAN DIEGO SOLDIER, 24, KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

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By Miriam Raftery

July 28, 2010 (San Diego) –Four U.S. soldiers including Army Staff Sergeant Conrad Mora, 24, of San Diego were killed Saturday in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb. Mora was leading a group of solders when the attack on their vehicle occurred. He was a graduate of Morse High School, where he played football.

 

He is survived by his wife, Ann, and their one-year-old son, Christopher. The family had recently moved to Washington state before his deployment.  Mora’s parents, Alejandrino and Carmelita Mora, live in National City. He is also survived by his sister, Carmela.

 

Sgt. Mora enlisted in the Army in 2004 after graduating high school. He was on his second deployment to Afghanistan when insurgents attacked the vehicle in which he was leading a squad of men. Sgt Daniel Lim, 23, of Cypress, California, Spec. Joseph A. Bauer, 27, of Cincinnati, and Pfc. Andrew L. Hand, 25, of Enterprise, Alabama were also killed in the explosion.
 

The young San Diego soldier had received numerous military honors, including an Army Commendation Medal and six Army Achievement medals. He had also been stationed in Korea, and received a Korean Defense Service medal.
 

“His passion was serving,” said his brother-in-law, Christian Lleva, 10 News reported.
 

Well aware of the dangers inherent in his mission, Sgt. Mora posted on his Facebook page that his employment with the U.S. Army including “blowing things up…but currently in Afghanistan clearing the roads of things that blows us up.”
 

To date, 1,196 American soldiers have been killed in Operation Enduring Freedom, the Afghanistan War conflict; another 4,417 have died in Iraq, bringing the total casualties for the wars in the Middle East to 5,603.

 


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