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July 11, 2007 -- A Queens soldier who wanted to serve in the Army so badly, he got his mother to give him permission to join early as a 17th-birthday present, was killed in Iraq, the military said yesterday.
Pfc. Le Ron Wilson, 18, of Rosedale, was killed Friday in Baghdad when his vehicle struck an explosive.
'He was always interested in the military,' said his mother, Simona Francis, 42.
'When he was 16, he told me don't buy him a birthday present. He just wanted me to sign the papers for him to join the Army as his 17th birthday present.'
Although relatives tried to talk Wilson out of it, his mom finally agreed.
'I always told him I would support him in anything he wanted to do in his life, and that is what he truly wanted,' she said.
Francis called her son 'a very selfless person who was loved by all his schoolmates' at Thomas Edison Vocational HS.
Meanwhile, the military yesterday also announced the noncombat death of Marine Lance Cpl. Angel Ramirez, 28, of Brooklyn."
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