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Hawai'i family mourns victim of Fallujah mob
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Apr 03, 2004 01:10pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, April 3, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Hawai'i family mourns victim of Fallujah mob
The Honolulu Advertiser
One of the four American contractors ambushed in Iraq and then dragged from their vehicles and mutilated by an angry mob this week was born and raised in rural Kukuihaele on the Big Island. Neighbors and family cried and gathered yesterday after official notice arrived of the death Wesley J. Batalona, 48, a retired U.S. Army Ranger sergeant who was raised in plantation housing near Waipi'o Valley. Aloha Dela Rosa, Batalona's younger sister, said her husband, Fredo, tried to talk Batalona out of going to Iraq at a February birthday party for a family member in Haina. It was the day before Batalona left the Big Island for the Middle East.
"What a way to die, dragged through the street like that," Dela Rosa said. "The family is so angry at what's going on. This war is not supposed to be, it's not supposed to be." |
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