Another Loss

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ATLANTIC CITY — Eric Rivera's last words home came in the mail Thursday.

“Yo FATT!” shouted the exuberant letter to brother Jefferson Rivera, 27. “What's really really good?”

Rivera's family said uniformed Army officials visited their North Brighton Avenue home Tuesday evening to tell them their son, Spc. Eric Rivera, 21, had been killed in Iraq.

“I got home and I saw a couple soldiers outside, uniformed soldiers,” Jeff said, “and as soon as I saw them I knew my brother was dead.”

Eric Rivera, who graduated with Atlantic City High School's 2003 class, is the first resort resident to die in the Iraq war. A funeral is planned for Dec. 2 at Our Lady Star of the Sea in the city.



http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/top_story/story/6941242p-6803880c.html

[lapfog_1]

1. When I was sixteen I answered the knock on the door

and saw the two Navy officers in their dress whites... and I knew why they were there. Brings tears to my eyes even now. I'm very sorry for the family.

[jhain]

2. So sorry............

It is always the same...