Carlos Moreno Rueda

October 11, 1944 – April 17, 2020

Lived 75 years

Riverside National Cemetery · Riverside, Ca

Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat and in that hallow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go. -Jamie Anderson

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1944

Born October 11

1947

Carlos was 3 when Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier

1958

Carlos was 14 when the Hula Hoop craze swept the country

1962

Carlos was 18 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war

1976

Carlos was 32 when America celebrated its Bicentennial

1981

Carlos was 37 when MTV began broadcasting

1998

Carlos was 54 when "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was published in America

2007

Carlos was 63 when the first iPhone went on sale

2015

Carlos was 71 when "Hamilton" opened on Broadway

2020

Passed away April 17, age 75

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Riverside National Cemetery

Riverside, Ca

Plot: 54A-255

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