From today's Los Angeles Times:
Marine Cpl. Jason Morrow was serving a tour in Iraq when he wrote his mother with a fanciful request. When he returned to Southern California on leave, he wanted to propose to his girlfriend, Evelyn Flores. And he wanted to do it on the field at Angel Stadium, where he had spent so many summers cheering for the team.
It took some negotiating, but his mother, Kristin Morrow, arranged it. And last summer, Morrow dropped to one knee and presented an engagement ring to Flores behind home plate. Players congratulated him, and manager Mike Scioscia invited him to stand by the dugout for the national anthem.
The team was so impressed with Morrow — both by his service in Iraq and his lifelong devotion to the Angels — that they invited him to return in October to throw out the first pitch before a playoff game against the Chicago White Sox.
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Morrow was a machine gunner on a Humvee when he was wounded by an improvised explosive device in Balad. He died June 27. His body arrived in the United States on the Fourth of July, his father's birthday.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jason8jul08,0,7874679.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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