Killed in Iranian missile attack, Staff Sgt. Rampersad laid to rest : NPR
The casket of Staff Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, who was killed in the ongoing war between the U.S. and Iran, is carried by NYPD officers during the funeral procession in New York on Friday, July 31. Ryan Murphy/AP hide caption toggle caption Ryan Murphy/AP NEW YORK — When Carolina Flores saw two men in military uniforms approach her friend’s house across the street, she had a feeling something was wrong. Her friend Carol Acevedo’s daughter was serving in the Middle East. “Once they closed the door, we just heard her screaming,” Flores said. The men had come to deliver the news that 28-year-old Angel S. Rampersad, a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army, was killed July 17 in an attack on the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. She was one of four American soldiers killed overseas in the last month. And just like that, a faraway war hit home in Ozone Park, Queens. It’s one of the most diverse places in the country. At a vigil for Rampersad Monday, dozens of neighbors from countries …


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