Sgt. Kenneth Conde

In April, Kenneth Conde Jr. was shot during a gunbattle in Iraq. Not only did he keep on fighting, he refused to go back home to Orlando, Fla., after being treated. "After he fell down, (insurgents) started cheering and he just got angry and got back up and his platoon kept going forward," said his father, Kenneth Conde Sr., a former Marine. "He refused to receive medical attention until his arm became so numb that he couldn''t hold his weapon anymore." The 23-year-old Conde Jr. returned to his platoon and was killed July 1 while fighting in Anbar province. He was based at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Conde, known as Kee-Kee to his friends, enjoyed art and weightlifting and joined the Marines out of high school, following in his father''s footsteps. "As a Marine, I understand the decisions he made. I respect them," his father said. "As a father, I wish he had come home." He is also survived by his mother, Theresa, and a fiancee, Yuri Ozaki.