When First Sergeant Kasai learned that Marines were pinned down inside the house by an unknown number of enemy personnel, he joined a squad making entry to clear the structure and rescue the Marines inside.Gallardo, Jose, USMCLeatherneck
“He wanted to be the picture-perfect Marine,” said his mother, Mary Stumpf. “He strove. He was never content with any particular rank. He had to just go for the next and the next and the next.” He and Carla would separate again. He went to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo,...