There was a special tribute Saturday for a Bronx soldier killed in the line of duty. naveencbs2ny joined his family as a street was renamed in his honor.
For Manuel Moreno, watching that sign unveil was like feeling his brother's soul.In the middle of Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse, his family, friends and officials gathered to honor and celebrate Private Luis Moreno's life and sacrifice.
Moreno was just 19 years old when he was shot and killed in Iraq in 2004, the youngest New Yorker to die in Baghdad."The fact that he passed away a year before I was born just hits home," she said. "He died doing what he loved. Even though he was never able to become a police officer, he still died fighting and doing what he wanted to do," Malery Moreno said."The loss is real and it's traumatizing, but it should be a moment of reflection to lift up the fact that we are sitting under the tree of freedom that he watered with his blood," the mayor said.
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