Sergeant Frederico G Borjas Memorial Highway – Eustis, Florida
N 28° 51.084 W 081° 37.964
17R E 438283 N 3191686
Dedicated Highway SR 44 Eastbound, in Lake County, FL. The Sign is 3/10 of a mile east of Estes Road, Eustis, FL
Waymark Code: WMYQRA
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 07/12/2018
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It would have been easy to mistake Federico "Rico" Borjas and his best friend, Eric Ramirez, as brothers.
The dark-haired, well-built men were almost inseparable their entire lives. They played baseball and football together as boys in Central Florida and later worked as law-enforcement officers in San Diego.
So when Ramirez, who grew up in Mount Dora, was killed while on patrol in Iraq as an Army National Guard specialist in 2004, Borjas was inconsolable.
Four years later, Borjas, who was raised in Apopka, decided to re-enlist in the military to honor his best friend. Within weeks of arriving in Afghanistan as an Army Reserve sergeant, the 33-year-old soldier was killed when a gunman ambushed his convoy.
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