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08-07-2007, 04:50 PM
Juan Alcantara Pena is the latest Dominican to die while on military duty in the Middle East. Reportedly, he died while on duty in Kuwait. Pena, a 22-year old from Washington Heights, New York had been in Iraq for a year. His family told Hoy that US military officials visited the family home yesterday to break the tragic news. The newspaper also reports that the soldier's wife, Dayonara, was pregnant when he left for duty in Iraq and their daughter is now one month old. Alcantara Pena was born in Santiago and relocated to the US when he was five years old. Family members in Santiago are also mourning his loss. Alcantara Pena lived with his mother on Wadsworth Avenue. Coincidentally his apartment was located only blocks from the house of Ryan Tejada, another Dominican who lost his life in Iraq. The Dominican community is still recovering from Tejada's loss and the disappearance of Alex Ramon Jimenez Duran, who was taken hostage by rebel forces in Iraq on 12 May. His fate is still unknown.
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