Name: Army Sgt. John D. Aragon Age: 22 From: Antioch, Calif.; Assigned to the 1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.; Incident: Army Sgt. John D. Aragon died June 12 in Kadamiyah, Iraq, of wounds sustained when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. Died:
June
12, 2008 Antioch soldier killed by roadside bomb in Iraq
The Associated Press
ANTIOCH, Calif. — When John Aragon told his mother during his senior year of high school that he wanted to join the Army, she urged him to wait at least a year before making the decision.
Aragon completed a year at a community college, but the delay did nothing to diminish his passion for the military, his mother said. He called his parents once he reached Fort Campbell, Ky., to tell them all about it.
“He said, ‘I love the Army and the Army loves me,”’ Denise Aragon said. “The two just clicked.”
Aragon served for just over two years before he was killed Thursday by a roadside bomb in Iraq, the Department of...
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 17, 2011
PRAYER FOR FALLEN SOLDIERSDEAR LORD JESUS AND MARY, MOTHER OF GOD, HOLD ALL THESE BRAVE SOULS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND; COMFORT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES. MAY ALL FALLEN SOLDIERS BE BLESSED AND PRAISED FOR GIVINGTHE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE MAY THEIR SOULS REST IN PEACE IN HEAVEN, AND GRANT THEM WITH ETERNAL SALVATION THAT THEY MAY ALL REST IN PEACE. MAY OUR LORD HOLD ALL FALLEN SOLDIERS IN HIS ARMS AND BRING PEACE AND COMFORT TO THERE FAMILIES. WE ASK YOU LORD GOD TO GRANT ALL OUR PRAYERS IN JESUS NAME AMEN. . (SAY: OUR FATHER, HAIL MARY, GLORY BE) IN HONOR OF THE HOLY SOULS
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Sep 08, 2009
The pain those who love you and the liberty you preserved will remain.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on May 25, 2009
we are really sorry and we appreciate you on memorial day!!!!
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jan 26, 2009
Thank you for your courage and service. May you rest peacefully in Gods loving and secure arms.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 22, 2008
Inside my head, I hear you say, " you are so very strong, you can do this on your own." But it feels so wrong.~~I never got to say goodbye, that's what hurts the most. It haunts me to this very day, that you were so far away, I couldn't hold you close.~~I know that you are still close to us, I feel you in my heart, though you walk amongst the clouds, we're never far apart.~~Until the day we meet again, my arms will long to be wrapped around your loving form, where finally I'll be free.~~I try to understand why GOD chose me to endure this pain, this awful misery.~~Will I ever understand ? Will I never know why ? I can't think of a reason that you had to die.~~Sometimes these emotions are too hard to feel, but I hope they make me stronger, I hope they help me to heal.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 22, 2008
The pain is still here. No matter how much time goes by. As each morning approaches, I think of you and cry.--It's hard to think about what could have been. But I can't help but think about it now and then.--I think of you each and every day. I would have you here if I had my way.--But I can't change things no matter how many wishes I make. I will have to live life with constant heartache.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 22, 2008
John, I can't stand this pain. I just want to scream. I wish someone would wake me up from this nightmarish dream. I want to open my eyes and see you standing there. Seeing you laughing and telling all of your wonderful jokes and stories with such loving care It's never going to happen and that makes me really mad. I can't understand why GOD took you. We all and miss you so-we are so sad.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 22, 2008
The days are long. The nights even longer. The pain has not erased, instead it's gotten stronger.Sometimes I am back there again, there at the funeral home on that sad, sad day enduring so much pain. I want to crawl into a hole and hide away. The pain is always there no matter what I do.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 22, 2008
I called you today! But I forgot you can't answer your phone anymore. I got you a rose but it died. I wrote you a letter but it flew away. I waited for you at the park but you didn't show. I went to your favorite restaurant but you didn't mkae it. I went to the cememtry and...I layed at your grave for hours hoping you would come back to me.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 22, 2008
I thought about you tonight and where in Heaven you might be. Is it really a better place it's too far for me to see.--Are you flying with the Angels ? Do you glide amongst the stars ? Can you see my prayers at night ? Can you see my hidden scars ?-- I'm walking in the rain, somehow it comforts me. I guess, I feel like crying when life cries next to me.--But no amount of rain could measure up the countless tears I've cried. No amount of happiness could fill the void I feel inside.--Tonight I feel like crying because there's so much I would like to say. But somewhere in my weeping soul I know I'll be okay.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 22, 2008
I still remember the day you died. Like a memory that never goes away. My heart is still broken John, I just wished you could have stayed.--Remember all the fun times we had and all the good times together. But now it just makes me feel so sad to think you are now gone forever.--I keep recalling your dying day, the time when we all just cried. We were never so sad as the day that you died.--A friend like you, I can't belive I found. My time with you was so special, our lives will be forever bound.--They say it was supposed to happen; that it was GOD'S wish. I just want to see you once more John, and give you a final hug and kiss.--You are a memory in my mind, and a love in my heart ! You're a memory that never goes away, and I wish your heart would re-start.--But I know it won't, no matter how much I don't want to believe it. My heart is like a jigsaw puzzle without you and the pieces just won't fit.--I know it's been over a month, nearly two in fact. You're a loving memory in my heart, and it never goes away.-- Love Wendy-- You were truly a wonderful friend.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 22, 2008
Shh !! Don't say a word. don't even whisper. It must remain unheard. Like a story without no beginning must remain untold. Like an object without a price cannot be sold. Keep it at a distance, it cannot be shown. It has to be kept secret, must remain unknown. For if no one finds out not even one, then maybe there's a chance GOD can undo what has already been done.--So I sit here and grieve alone, for there might be some hope if it remains unkown.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 20, 2008
My friend for many years. Time just disappears. Goodbye has finally came. And life is not a game.I can't ever do this again ( lose my best friend to death's cold grip). He will forever be in my heart forever. I know, I will remember. But, I'm just sad right now. I guess it was time to go. Why, I don't know ?
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 20, 2008
I thought I would fall over and die. Maybe it was just a lie. I couldn't believe my ears. Nothing could stop the tears. My best friend gone forever, it was a relationship I did not want to sever. All my fears have come true. Now what do I do ? He left me all alone. This war isn't something one should condone. Terroism wasn't his choice. I wish he could have used his voice. Not one word could he say to me. Why couldn't I only see ? He was my best friend after all. But I just let him fall. Now my heart is filled with sorrow. And today is just yesterday's tomorrows.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 20, 2008
Photographs mean everything when people leave. Maybe GOD took them away.--Maybe they were young and wasn't meant to go. Maybe a bike or car accident, or maybe even a war, its just too hard to know.--Or maybe it was his time to go. It came so unexpectedly and no one did know.--There is every kind of reason why our loved ones must leave. Sometimes they go and we so surely grieve and grieve.--But it's a sad fact that all you have left are cherished photographs.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 20, 2008
For the first time since you were born we lie here so lonely in our bed. Without you here the swimming and spinning of our emotions and our heads. In the house where you used to lie (sleep) and we would listen to every breath and sigh. Our hearts sink into the depth of darkness at the realization that death did depart us.--What a beautiful baby, loving child and kind man you were.We will miss you until we get there( with you).
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 20, 2008
I have cried a thousand times, asked why a million more, your golden heart and bright eyes, won't walk back through that door.--So many things we'll never do, words we will never speak, I've never known such emptiness, or felt so incomplete.--They say your soul flies away to Heaven when you die, I longed to chase you on that sad, sad day, and fade into the sky.--I couldn't feel a single thing, except the urge to hide, peace will never find me now, a part of me has died.--You were my soul, my everything, and now I'm on my own. I don't think I can do this, I hurt down to the bone.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 19, 2008
The time comes when those whom we have loved the longest and the best will travel into a place of joy and rest....And we must walk a lonely path through shadows for awhile without a certain kindred voice, a dear, familiar smile--yet each day brings us nearer to horizons yet unknown. And even when the way is dark, we never walk alone, for memories travel with us toward the happy destination where we will join our loved ones in eternal celebration.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 14, 2008
Most people walk in and out of your life. But only loved one's leave footprints in your heart.
Prayers & Condolences For: John D Aragon BY Anonymous on Jul 14, 2008
Have you ever truly heard an angel whisper in your ear ? Their voices are soft and comforting, letting you know that you have nothing to fear.--If
you listen very carefully you might just hear their sweet voice whispering to you of GOD'S perfect love and all the things that make you rejoice.--They do their very best to always watch over you to keep you safe and happy in everything you do.--So next time you feel lonely, kinda scared and blue, just listen to your angel...and listen....for they'll whisper back to you.