Authored by: anonymous on Friday, July 22 2005 @ 10:12 PM EDT

SSG Pena-Romero,
I would like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for our Country. And to your family,I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

A grateful citizen

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Authored by: anonymous on Saturday, July 23 2005 @ 01:18 PM EDT

"Jorge

You will always be in my heart and I have been very fortunate to have you in my life. I have your cousin Bibi to thank for that. We will see you tomorrow when your mom brings you home. My tears will be of sadness but will turn to those of joy, for you will be in the House of our Lord. I will remember you as a friend and know you are a great father, husband, brother, son and have enriched all lives that have had the pleasure to meet you.

As an American I would like to thank you for all you have done throughout the years to protect these United States. To your friends that still are in harms way, a special thanks from this American.

I saw this poem and thought it made sense

Love you bro, Eric






WHILE WE ARE SLEEPING
While we are sleeping
in the comfort of our beds
Another soldier fallen
Another soldier dead.
God bless us all,
the whole human race
and all the difficulties
we must now face.
While we are sleeping
in the comfort of our beds
Another soldier fallen
Another soldier dead.
How can we ever Thank You
what words are there to say
To leave the ones you loved behind
broken and crying
and absolutely knowing
this freedom came from dying.
Before I lay my head to sleep
in the comfort of my bed
I pray to God
in the heavens above,
Take special care
of these families that loved.
Be there for them
in their bottomless pit
as they will continue to weep.
The price they have had to pay
is also so very steep.
To look upon their face no more
is more than enough to bare.
The sadness that will never cease
The loss that once made them complete.
Be grateful enough
to show that you care
for their loss is truly your gain.
While we are sleeping
in the comfort of our beds
Another soldier fallen
Another soldier dead.
This sacrifice
intertwined with this gain
carries the depth of the deepest pain.
These families have
so gratefully shared
in a death for which freedom came.
I pray for the soldier far from home
and pray that you know
you are never alone
God Speed and God Bless
once again you will be
protected and sheltered
in the land of the free.
Please stop this war,
Please ask no more
for their ultimate gift of dying.
So as you are sleeping
in the comfort of your bed
Remember another soldier fallen
Another soldier dead
to give you all your comforts
of laying in your beds.
To wake up each and every day
forever to be able to say
GOD BLESS THE USA.
Written by Linnie Blankenbecler
in loving memory of her husband"
Eric Warner of West Covina, CA

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Authored by: anonymous on Saturday, August 06 2005 @ 06:43 PM EDT

Ours prayers and are thought are with you and your family in this time of great sadness. Pena was a loving man full of laughter. Donte and I will never forget him or his precious family.
You are all in our hearts,
(SSG) Donte, Shanez, Donte JR and Daniel

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Authored by: Nessa on Tuesday, August 09 2005 @ 03:08 PM EDT

Jorge was my Brother-n-Law, He was a very nice and caring man. He loved to be with his family and loved when we had bbq at our house. He and my dad would talk for hours and hours about all kinds of stuff. I remember when him and the family would come over to the house, we would just laugh about all kinds of things & if you brought up something imbarrising he would just turn bright red, it was so funny to see him do that..I loved him so much he was my loser and i was his punk, thats what we would call eachother, thats how we showed one another that we cared. You will always be in my heart and in my mind.
Your Loving Sister-n-Law,
Vanessa-aka- your punk!!

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Authored by: anonymous on Friday, April 07 2006 @ 08:46 PM EDT

SGT PENA as I knew him back in 1999 through 2000, I spent 7 months sharing the same room in a theatre located on top of a mountain in Kosovo. Many of my first Army memories are ones with Jorge's bright smile and great sense of humor. My deepest symopothies go out to his surviving family.

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