Tag: Afghanistan

Santa Clarita Shows Support for Fallen Soldier

Santa Clarita streets were lined with people of all ages to pay respect to Spc. Rudy Acosta who was killed in Afghanistan on March 19th.

Pfc. Rudy Acosta Laid to Rest

By Robert Sippey, additional reporting by Gloria Locke Santa Clarita streets were lined with people of all ages to pay respect to Spc. Rudy Acosta who was killed in Afghanistan…

COC Administrator to be Deployed to Afghanistan

Renard Thomas, College of the Canyons’ Director of Re-entry and Veteran’s Center, will be deployed to active duty in Afghanistan. He will be away from COC for about 16 months….

Rudy Acosta Funeral Service Scheduled for Thursday

Pfc. Rudy A. Acosta, 19, was killed in Afghanistan March 19.

And once again we come upon 9/11. It is a day remembered as when 19 people got out of bed one morning and killed 3,000 of our fellow Americans. Americans of every race, creed, and background were afflicted by the attacks, and still are to this day.

Fallen Stevenson Ranch Soldier Remembered

Stevenson Ranch lost one of their own, when U.S. Army Paratrooper, Ian T. D. Gelig, was killed in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Several thousand Santa Clarita residents lined the sidewalks for much of the processional route, an estimated 2,000 of them in Stevenson Ranch alone. Some saluted, some held homemade signs saying “Hero” and “Thank You For Your Service”; most waved American flags.

Stevenson Ranch Soldier Dies in Afghanistan

It may be thousands of miles away, but the war in Afghanistan hit home again Monday. Army Specialist Ian Gelig of Stevenson Ranch was killed by a roadside bomb in…