In
a ceremony in English and Spanish, a new U.S. warship was christened
Saturday in honor of a Marine from San Diego who was killed in Iraq.
The
Navy guided-missile destroyer Rafael Peralta was christened at the
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine.
Peralta
was killed Nov. 15, 2004, during the second battle of Fallouja and is
credited with saving the lives of several Marines during
house-to-house fighting. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross,
although Marines insist he should have received the Medal of Honor.
Peralta,
an immigrant from Mexico, enlisted in the Marine Corps on the day he
received his green card. He was 25 when he was killed leading Marines
into a house to clear out heavily armed and barricaded insurgents.
Sgt.
Peralta was killed 11 years ago in Iraq when he threw himself onto a
grenade to protect his fellow soldiers
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-destroyer-christened-20151031-story.html
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by Paul Hunter
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