Military service is a sign. There are some families that have it embedded in their DNA, the Hidalgos of Milwaukee are one of those. The price can sometimes be painfully high and this time it was their youngest son. Waukesha — When Army officers and a chaplain knocked at the home of Jorge and Andrea Hidalgo, they knew the worst had happened. What they didn't know - which son? All three sons in the Hidalgo family are serving our country, two West Point graduates stationed in Afghanistan and a Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton. The Army officers told them gently that it was Daren, the youngest of the family's three boys. A 2009 West Point graduate, 1st Lt. Daren Hidalgo was serving his first deployment in Afghanistan, and as a platoon commander in a Stryker Calvary Regiment he was known for his leadership and care of his men. In fact, he had been wounded in an IED attack two weeks before his Feb. 20 death but refused to leave his soldiers to seek treatment for shrapnel wounds to his thigh.
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Mar 02 2011, 10:35 AM
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