Texas Marine killed in Iraq this week
(12/21/05 - BROWNSVILLE, TX) - A U-S Marine from San Benito was killed this
week in Iraq.
The family of 20-year-old Lance Corporal Samuel Tapia says Tapia died Sunday
after serving four months in Iraq.
Jackelyn Tapia told the Brownsville Herald that her husband joined the
Marines 15 months ago.
She says she and her husband married one-and-a-half years ago and have a
one-year-old daughter named Samantha.
Family members remember Samuel Tapia as a jovial and calm man who was proud
of his military service.
Jackelyn Tapia says her husband died in action.
"He died like a true hero," she says -- "like a true Marine."
Samuel Tapia was assigned to the Third Battalion, Seventh Marines Weapons
Company at Twenty-nine Palms, California. The U-S Department of Defense has
not announced Tapia's death.
Samuel Tapia is also survived by his parents Juvenal and Rosario Tapia of
San Benito, two siblings and numerous cousins, aunts and uncles.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
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