{"id":1905,"date":"2014-04-29T14:19:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T18:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lcpllutzlivetotell.org\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2019-11-09T16:40:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T21:40:02","slug":"elias-reyes-jr-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/?p=1905","title":{"rendered":"Elias Reyes, Jr, 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

US Marine Corporal Elias Reyes, Jr, born September of 1986, of Riverside, California, beloved son of Maria Jauregui and Elias Reyes; beloved brother of Margarita, Mario, Rosario, Irene and Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

In 2004, Elias joined the United States Marine Corps right out of high school to fight the war on terrorism. He honorably served as an Infantry Assault-man, Weapons Platoon, Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines Regiment.<\/p>\n

Cpl Reyes had two combat tours in Iraq under his belt when he and the rest of the 2\/7 arrived in Sangin, Afghanistan. Sangin is located in Helmand Province but when the 2\/7 got there it might as well have been called hell.<\/p>\n

It was not unusual for the Marines in Echo Company to engage with the enemy three or four times a day. An IED had left him with a traumatic brain injury, and the heavy combat he saw left him suffering from post-traumatic stress.<\/p>\n

Corporal Reyes was honorably discharged in 2008.<\/p>\n

When Cpl Reyes was discharged after three tours of combat in his four years of service, he fulfilled a dream of becoming a UCLA Bruin. He graduated from UCLA in 2012 with a 3.8 grade point average and a Bachelors Degree in Philosophy. Pursuing his dream of becoming a doctor, Elias moved to Albany, CA. to complete his Post Baccalaureate in Life Sciences. But even as he excelled in the classroom, the battlefield haunted him.<\/p>\n

Cpl Elias Reyes, Jr lost his battle with PTSD and TBI, April 29, 2014. He was 27 years old.<\/p>\n

Cpl Elias Reyes’ story:<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Add your loved one to the wall<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US Marine Corporal Elias Reyes, Jr, born September of 1986, of Riverside, California, beloved son of Maria Jauregui and Elias Reyes; beloved brother of Margarita, Mario, Rosario, Irene and Elizabeth. In 2004, Elias joined the United States Marine Corps right out of high school to fight the war on terrorism. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorial-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}