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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - According to Kelly Avants, Director of Communications for the Clovis Unified School District, 28-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Marcelino Gamino of Fresno was a postgraduate of Clovis East High School successful 2015.
The young worker was 1 of 2 Marines killed and 1 injured successful a convoy clang successful New Mexico connected Tuesday, portion connected a deployment to the confederate border. The different Marine killed was identified arsenic Lance Cpl. Albert Aguilera of Riverside.
Both men were combat engineers with the First Marine Division.
Friday, YourCentralValley.com contacted Gamino's grandfather. However, the infinitesimal we asked astir his grandson, the antheral understandably broke down, excessively upset to accidental thing yet.
"A nonaccomplishment for them is simply a nonaccomplishment for each of us, and we should each beryllium mourning their loss. It's a shared loss. And it breaks my bosom to deliberation that these young marines paid the eventual terms successful keeping america free," said Lorenzo Rios, CEO of the Clovis Veterans Memorial District.
Rios says they haven't heard from the young household of the young Marine yet, but says they're acceptable to measurement successful and assistance successful immoderate mode they can, whenever they do.
"Here's my connection to the household if they're listening, our doors are unfastened and we volition bash everything we tin to marque definite that they are served," helium said.
Part of that work includes connecting the household to immoderate disposable assets they mightiness need. Rios says they besides supply a solemnisation of beingness and immoderate gathering, each for free.
Those, helium says, are offered to each household successful the portion that experiences a subject loss.
"We won't mince words. They mislaid them. We mislaid them. We privation to stock that load with them, and we'll beryllium determination for them," Rios explained. "Whatever we tin do, we'll beryllium determination to enactment them."
It's conscionable portion of the determination appreciation and pridefulness seen astatine the Clovis Veterans Memorial District, wherever they deterioration reddish each Friday to correspond a precise ineffable and timely acronym.
"Remember everyone deployed."
It's conscionable portion of what they bash to enactment to amusement enactment and archer the stories of those who served and sacrificed, from exhibits to the Garden of Honor. A spot wherever the emblem ever blows to correspond a past enactment of devotion, and wherever the h2o ever flows arsenic a awesome for the tears of a grateful nation.
For the latest connected ceremonial services for Lance Cpl. Gamino, enactment with YourCentralValley.com.
