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...from Akron, Ohio; and Jenks, who joined the platoon in late November. Grimes, 26, the only female soldier attached to the unit, maintains a steely grit around the guys but cries on the phone to her father when she talks about what she has witnessed in Iraq. Sergeant Jose Cesar Aparicio, 31, a reservist, heads a psychological-operations team attached to the platoon. The leader of the Tomb Raiders, First Lieutenant Brady Van Engelen, 24, took over command two months ago and is still fighting for his soldiers' respect...
...from Mexico who became U.S. citizens through an amnesty program, raised six American-born children in the city. Today their two-bedroom bungalow is home to 11 people representing three generations and is the hive of activity for the extended family. Here, each relative feels the absence of Jose Cesar Aparicio, a reservist serving in Iraq, in a different way. Gloria, 51, misses her son, her confidant. Of all her children, she says, Cesar, as the family calls him, "is the one I can talk to most openly." Says the matriarch, who suffers from diabetes and kidney disease...
...unmarried half sister Ana, 23, says that Cesar, who served eight years in the Marines before joining the Army Reserve, was a surrogate father to her three young sons; the eldest calls him Daddy. Cesar dubbed his daughter Amber, 10, and her two girl cousins "Charlie's Angels." Before he was called up for duty in Iraq, Cesar lived in San Diego, where he worked in the border patrol, but he spent his days off at his parents' house in Los Angeles and took the girls each week to Soak City, a local water park. He has been a role...
When she learned her father was in Iraq, Amber, who lives near her grandparents' house with her mother, from whom Cesar is separated, fell ill with a fever and lack of appetite, missing a month of school. She speaks to Cesar one to three times a week, when he phones home. But during the calls, "she's quiet," says Cesar's half sister Martha. "If he doesn't ask her, she won't say anything...
Colorado CELEBRATING CESAR CHAVEZ An initiative (also on New Mexico's ballot) sought to establish a legal holiday in honor of the labor leader. Defeated...