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Francisco Gilberto Hernandez-Vargas, age 24, from Woodside, New York.
Service era: Afghanistan
Date of death: Sunday, August 2, 2020
Death details: Disappeared underwater while being pulled on an innertube behind a motor boat on Stillhouse Hollow Lake
Sam Cherman, age 19, from Woodside, New York, Queens county.
Service era: Beirut bombings
Date of death: Sunday, December 4, 1983
Death details: Among eight Marines killed and two wounded by artillery fire in Beirut
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, UPI (1983)