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Yelner, Jonathan Antonio Vega
Air Force Senior Airman

Jonathan Antonio Vega Yelner, age 24, from Lafayette, California, Contra Costa county.

Parents: Yolanda Vega and Bruce Yelner; stepfather Bill Theile

Service era: Iraq
Schools: De La Salle High in Walnut Creek (2002)
Military history: 28Th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Ellsworth Afb, Sd; Enlisted October 7, 2003.

Date of death: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Death details: Killed when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb near at Tagab Valley, Afghanistan
Cemetery: Oakmont Cemetery, Lafayette

Source: Department of Defense, Los Angeles Times, Military Times

Ward, Robert William
Army Private 1st class

Robert William Ward, age 20, from Lafayette, California, Contra Costa county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Saturday, July 25, 1970
Death details: Killed in action in Vietnam
Cemetery: Memory Gardens, Concord

Source: National Archives, Concord Transcript (1970)

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