Hero in Our Midst – Francisco Urena – Valley Patriot of the Month Sept. 2007

By Tom Duggan on September 7, 2007   Hero of the Month, Heroes, Lawrence, Local, National, Op-Ed, Tom Duggan  

  By: Tom Duggan, September, 2007  Most Lawrence residents know Francisco Urena as the city’s Veterans’ Services Director, but long before Urena came to work for the city of Lawrence he was serving the United States Marines in the 1st Tank Battalion in Iraq. Urena was born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in […]