Army Staff Sgt. Arthur S. Mastrapa
tommy35, of Apopka, Fla.
assigned to the 351 Military Police Company, 95th Military Police Battalion, 16th Military Police Brigade, Army Reserve, Ocala, Fla.; killed June 16 during a mortar attack when mortar rounds hit his camp in Balad, Iraq.
Tags: apopka, Florida, hero, tampaA soldier from central Florida was killed in Iraq, just days before he planned to come home and surprise his dad for Father’s Day… Mastrapa was scheduled to return to the U.S. on Friday with his unit, the Army Reserve’s 351st Military Police Company, based in Ocala. Mastrapa had kept his return a secret, hoping to surprise his family. “He wanted to surprise me for Father’s Day,” said his father Arthur Mastrapa, 61. “He was a joy to have around — a very good, happy person.”
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May 18th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
In any man who dies there dies with him
his first snow and kiss and fight…
Not people die but worlds die in them.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko