IRAQ: A day of sadness, in Spanish and English

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Cpl. Miguel Angel Guzman was the last to be buried of the four Marines killed by a roadside bomb in Karma on May 2. He was laid to rest Wednesday at Rose Hills Memorial Park, south of Los Angeles.

Sgt. Glen Martinez was buried Tuesday in Monte Vista, Colo. Lance Cpl. James F. Kimple and Lance Cpl. Casey L. Casanova were buried Saturday in Carroll, Ohio, and Summit, Miss., respectively. The four were from the 1st Marine Logistics Group at Camp Pendleton.

Much of the funeral and burial service for Guzman, including the presentation of his Purple Heart to his parents, was in Spanish.

‘Today is a day of much sadness; there is much pain in today’s service,’ Father John-Paul Gonzales told several hundred family members, Marines and friends gathered at St. John of God Church in Norwalk.

—Tony Perry and Francisco Vara-Orta, in Norwalk and Whittier.

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