Via The Mercury News:

The family’s patriarch, Army Sergeant Martin “Mick” LaMar, was shot and killed on January 15, 2011. LaMar, who served with the Marines and Army, and who was a veteran of the Gulf War, died on his wedding anniversary. It also was the day he was scheduled to deploy home from Iraq.

He was survived by his wife Josephine and five children — one, a daughter, that he never met.

No matter what team you root for you have to love this move.

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