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Immigrant of the Day: David Jimenez Almazan (Mexico)

By immigrationprof

Our immigrant of the day is Almazan David Jimenez Almazan, a combat medic in the U.S. Army who died at the age of 27 on August 27, 2006 in Hit, Iraq, the victim of a roadside bomb.  Almanzan was married and had only been in Iraq for three weeks.

Born in Mexico, Jimenez came to the U.S. with his mother and sisters when he was 11 to join his father. Before he went to Iraq, he applied for citizenship. It was granted after his death.

Almazan joined the Army in 2002 because “he wanted to make a difference for himself and for other people,” his wife said.  The Van Nuys resident reenlisted last spring for another four years with the goal of becoming a physician’s assistant.

KJ