Jocelyn L. Carrasquillo
Army Spc. Jocelyn L. Carrasquillo, 28, of
Wrightsville, North Carolina Unit: 1st Battalion, 120th Infantry Regiment, Army
National Guard from Wilmington, NC on March 13 2004 Died on the main supply
route in Iraq, when an improvised explosive device hit his vehicle.
Joselyn Luis Carrasquillo
Rest in Peace
N.C. National Guard
member killed in Iraq remembered
Associated Press
GOLDSBORO, N.C. — More than 900 people descended upon a church on March 21 to
remember Spc. Jocelyn “Joce” Carrasquillo, a North Carolina National Guard
member killed by a bomb in Iraq.
Carrasquillo, a member of the Wilmington-based 120th Infantry Regiment, was the
second soldier from the state National Guard to die in Iraq. He later was
interred with military honors.
A slideshow of a young man who would have been 30 a week and a half after his
funeral welcomed Carrasquillo’s fellow soldiers, friends, co-workers, and
churchgoers. They filled the 890-seat First Pentecostal Holiness Church past
capacity.
Carrasquillo’s mother, Isabel Salgado Carrasquillo, kissed her son before the
casket closed.
Carrasquillo’s friend, Kenny Wilson, said he hoped the standing-room-only
gathering would bring comfort to Carrasquillo’s parents and three brothers.
“These people are all here because Joce really touched people,” Wilson said.
“You meet him once, and you never forget him.”
Mourners said that pictures revealed the best qualities of the young soldier,
who had lived in Wrightsville Beach and was studying to be a massage therapist
in his ongoing quest to help people.
“He was always smiling. Always,” Wilson said.
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