Joseph Menusa

San Jose, California

March 27, 2003

Joseph Menusa intended to join the Air Force. He joined the Marines instead and became a Marine recruiter. Menusa, a veteran of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, died in Iraq during a March 27 ambush. The Philippines-born soldier based at Camp Pendleton was awarded U.S. citizenship posthumously. He was married and had a 3-year-old son.