33, of Boca Raton, Fla.
assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14, Jacksonville, Fla.; killed May 2 by hostile fire in Anbar province, Iraq.
McHugh grew up in Boca Raton and graduated from Spanish River High in 1989. He loved fishing and playing pool, his mother said, but never really settled on a career. He attended Palm Beach Community College for a year before joining the Navy.
Jonathan Mogor, 32, of Lake Worth, had been friends with McHugh since they were both 16 and they joined the Navy together. Mogor said his friend loved fishing, camping and canoeing, and was devoted to his family and friends. Mogor remembered McHugh playing pranks, including the time he slipped a jalapeno in Mogor’s Burger King Whopper.
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Norman Cousins