BY LEON WORDEN
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7, 2011
Rudy Acosta was a Santa Clarita boy through and through. Born at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, he attended Santa Clarita Christian School and enlisted in the Army as a medic. He wanted to save lives and become a surgeon.
He shipped off to Afghanistan in the summer of 2010. When he came back home for a visit in January, he came back a man.
Two months later he was dead.
He didn’t step on a land mine. He didn’t get shot by a sniper. He didn’t fall in a firefight.
Rudy and his fellow soldiers were back at their base – safely, by all rights, inside the wire.
They were preparing for a mission, cleaning their guns, when an Afghan insurgent masquerading as a protector opened fire on the troops he was hired to guard.
Rudy may have saved one last life as he fell. Reports suggest he may have stepped into a bullet intended for another solider – a woman who credits Rudy for the fact that she is alive today to raise her own family.
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