DAGUPAN CITY — American Army Staff Sergeant Richwell Doria had planned to come home to visit his parents here when his contract with the US Army expired in 2008.
He wanted to introduce his wife, Jasmine and four-year-old daughter Jada to his parents Fred and Rosario Doria.
But Doria’s homecoming came earlier and unexpected.
On Monday, he arrived here at dawn in a casket and he would be buried Tuesday on the eve of his 26th birthday.
“We are sad, very sad because he is gone. He was like my own son,” said Zenaida Anderson, Doria’s childless aunt, who also served as his guardian until he moved to San Diego, California. Since he was 12, Doria had been adopted by his grandfather.
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