Remembering and Honoring LCpl Robert Moscillo ~ NH Hero

Remembering and honoring LCpl Robert Moscillo, 21 he was KIA on 5-1-06 by a roadside bomb. He was assigned to 1st Combat Engineers, 1st Marine Division, Bravo Company based at Camp Pendleton.

Bobby, to his family, was a 2003 Salem High School graduate and a member of the wrestling team who enjoyed staying as active as possible. He was a sports fanatic and kept a good grade point average and planned to go to college to become a pastor. His teachers remember him as “the kind of boy who tried hard all the time”.

He joined the Marines in 2005 to serve his country and was a machine gunner in his unit charged with detecting land mines. He had planned to make a career out of the military.

He was nicknamed “The Chaplin” at boot camp. He prayed with other Marines and sometimes persuaded them to go to church with him and his grandmother. He wanted to become a pastor and thought the Marines could help him afford seminary school.

Bobby was a son, brother, friend and most of all a father figure to his five siblings. He was close to his cousins and was known for always being protective of his siblings and cousins. Family members said he was not just the stern man seen in his Marine dress photo, but a likable, fun-loving character who served as a good role model to his younger relatives.

As a child Bobby liked G.I. Joe action figures, even dressing up like one for Halloween.

His family learned of Bobby’s death almost 30 years after the death of his uncle, Robert L. Moscillo, for whom he is named, who died returning home from Navy service during the Vietnam War in 1976.

TO REMEMBER IS TO HONOR…