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Name: Marine Staff Sgt. Riayan A. Tejeda
Age: 26
From: New York, N.Y.
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Staff Sgt. Riayan A. Tejeda was killed April 11 during combat operations against enemy forces in northeast Baghdad.
Died:
April
11, 2003
Marine posthumously made U.S. citizen
NEW YORK — A Marine who died in Iraq before becoming an American citizen was posthumously given citizenship in a ceremony at his family’s home.
Staff Sgt. Riayan Tejeda, of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, was killed April 11 during combat in Baghdad.
Tejeda, 26, immigrated from the Dominican Republic as a child and grew up in the Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights.
Tejeda, who had been based at Camp Pendleton, Calif., served eight years in the Marines before he died and was the father of two daughters, ages 3 and 6.
Steven Farquharson, acting regional director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, presented a certificate of citizenship to Tejeda’s parents in a brief...
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Riayan A Tejeda
BY Anonymous on May 24, 2009 | |  | SEMPER FI
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Prayers & Condolences For:
Riayan A Tejeda
BY Anonymous on Apr 22, 2009 | | | | gracias por aver hecho esto aqui para mi hijo, aunque los americanos me negaron la parternidad de mi hijo, claro ellos tenian la de ellos por dentro, no quisieron darme un informe sobre la muerte de mi hijo, prefirieron hacerlo un heroe, de engano, ya que ahora lo demostraron, quitandole su nombre y nuestro apellido, tejeda, que mas haran manana, le quitaran el nombre ala calle, lo sacaran del cementerio, que hagan lo que quieran que yo siempre estares pendiente de todo, lo uqe hagan con riayan augusto tejeda. su padre, augusto reinaldo tejeda, mi cel. 809-516-5175. gracias
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Riayan A Tejeda
BY JOHN on Apr 09, 2008 | | | | May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.
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