Sarah Leas and Jon
Centanni, a Santa Ana police sergeant, center, walk with their son’s casket after
its arrival at the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos. Marine Corps Reserve Lance Cpl. Rick J. Centanni, 19, of Yorba Linda was killed March 24 when his armored vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the Marja region of southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, on the Pakistani border. He was assigned to the 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th
Marine Division at Camp Pendleton. Hundreds of law enforcement officers,
firefighters, active-duty armed forces, veterans and civilians attended the event. Share a memory about Centanni and learn about the lives of 582 other Californians who have been killed while supporting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on The Times’ interactive database California’s War Dead.
Credit: Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times