Service:  MARINE CORPS
Component:  ACTIVE DUTY
Name:  ROMERO, RAMON
Rank:  PFC
Pay Grade:  E02
Date of Death:  2005/08/22
Age:  19
Gender:  MALE
Home of Record City:  HUNTINGTON PARK
Home of Record State:  CA
Home of Record Country:  US
Unit:  WPNS CO, 2D BN, 7TH MAR, 1ST MAR DIV, TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA
Incident Geographic Code:  IZ
Casualty Geographic Code:  IZ
Casualty Country:  IRAQ
City of Loss:  FALLUJAH

Burial Location:
Rose Hills Memorial Park
3888 Workman Mill Rd
Whittier, CA 90601

Memorial Video:
Memorial video from the Second Battalion Seventh Marines 2016 reunion

Obituary:

Even as a toddler, Ramon Romero wanted to do things on his own. “If he fell, I would run to him,” said his mother, Maria Romero. “But if I picked him up, he would get mad. He wanted to get up by himself. Even when he was little, he had a very decisive character.” Romero, 19, of Huntington Park, Calif., was killed Aug. 22 by a roadside bomb near Fallujah. He was assigned to Twentynine Palms. The 2004 high school graduate wanted to become a police officer because his family used to live in Watts and were routinely burglarized. Ramon took taekwondo lessons for three years at Blue Dragon Taekwondo School. “He was one of the best students I ever had,” instructor Thomas Duenas said. “He was the ideal student: disciplined, very respectful and always willing to lend a helping hand.” After boot camp, Romero was shipped off to Iraq with a brief stop in Ireland, where he wrote home. “Never in my life did I dream about going to the other side of the world,” he wrote. “I’m prepared for what awaits, and I will take care of myself. Whatever happens, it will be God’s decision.” He also is survived by his father, Juan.