Lance Corporal Steven Chavez Memorial Cache
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Marine Lance Cpl. Steven M. Chavez, Hondo, New Mexico, died March 14, 2007, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Hondo is a fairly short drive east of the cache on U.S. 70.
This Open Gate Fishing Area was dedicated to his memory, as is this cache.
This is mandatory CITO here; keep this place beautiful, always better than you found it - SFC Bilbo (U.S. Army, Infantry, Retired)
Marine Lance Cpl. Steven M. Chavez, 20, of Hondo, N.M.; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif., died March 14 in Anbar province, Iraq.
Places like this throughout America remind us that our honored Veterans who could not return home with their smiles and other fine qualities, came from all walks of life and all kinds of urban and tucked away rural places, like Hondo, throughout our Land and Territories.--SFC Bilbo (aka BLMBilbo).
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Defense Department has announced that a 20-year-old New Mexico Marine lost his life in Iraq this week in Anbar province. Chavez’s family said they learned about his death March 14. They were told he had died from a gunshot wound.
The loss of Chavez has been hitting his family hard. “You pray and you pray that the day never comes, and then it does,” said Novelda Chavez, the Marine’s mother. “Your emotions are mixed — it’s not true, it’s a bad dream, a bad dream you never wake up from.”
Eddie Chavez, the Marine’s father, said he talked to his son about 15 hours before learning of his death. He said the younger Chavez had just another week in the field and he was coming home.
Chavez, who joined the Marines after graduating from Hondo High School in 2005, loved the outdoors and participated in track, basketball and six-man football while at Hondo, his father said.
In addition to his parents, Chavez is survived by a sister, Jackie Chavez, 22; and a brother, James Chavez, 11.
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