[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7488]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            TRIBUTE TO CALIFORNIA SERVICEMAN KILLED IN IRAQ

  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, as we pray for all those who are in harm's 
way, I rise to pay tribute to a Californian who was killed in the Iraqi 
war.
  Marine Corps Cpl Randal Kent Rosacker, age 21, of San Diego, CA, was 
killed on Sunday, March 23, when he encountered Iraqi troops pretending 
to surrender. He graduated in 2000 from San Diego's Junipero Serra High 
School where he was a star baseball player. He joined the Marines at 
age 18 and was a machine gunner based at Camp Lejeune in North 
Carolina. He is survived by his wife, his father--a Navy Master Chief 
at Naval Station Bremerton his mother and two sisters.
  May this beautiful young American rest in peace. May we have a short 
war. And may we also pray for the wisdom of those who send our young 
men and women on their mission.

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