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[quote]Man with local ties dies in Iraq

Saturday, 12 July 2008
By MIA LIGHT
Staff Writer
The U.S. military has positively identified the remains of Army Sgt. Alex R. Jimenez, whose wife, Yaderlin Hiraldo Jimenez, was facing deportation in Hazleton last year for illegally entering the United States from her native Dominican Republic.
A temporary stop was placed on Hiraldo Jimenez’s deportation proceedings after her husband, a native of Lawrence, Mass., and an Army specialist with the Second Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, was reported missing in action after his unit was ambushed while patrolling a deserted highway south of Baghdad on May 12, 2007.
During the year that followed, as the Jimenez family kept vigil, praying for Alex’s safe return, his wife received her permanent citizenship papers from Citizenship and Immigration Services in Buffalo, N.Y.
Military officials confirmed Friday that the remains of two soldiers found in Iraq this week were those of Jimenez and his comrade, Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich.
Four members of Jimenez’s unit and an Iraqi translator were killed in the ambush, according to officials, and Jimenez and two other soldiers were kidnapped. The body of Pvt. 1st Class Joseph J. Anzack Jr., 20, of Torrance, Calif., was discovered in the Euphrates River 11 days later.
Jimenez and Fouty remained classified as “missing/capturedâ€