Aron j hijar biography samples

LA HABRA – A former U.S. Army soldier who lives in La Habra, featured with his platoon in an Academy Award-nominated documentary, said the death of the film’s director by a mortar round Wednesday while covering a conflict in Libya was “like losing a brother.”

Aron Hijar received a text from the wife of a fellow solider at 8 a.m.

Biography of Aron Hijar

Wednesday morning saying photojournalist Tim Hetherington, co-director of “Restrepo,” had been killed.

Hetherington, who is from England, and a second journalist were killed and two other journalists injured while covering the conflict between Moammar Gadhafi’s forces and rebels wanting to drive Gadhafi from power, the Associated Press reported.

Hijar, 28, spent most of Wednesday by himself mourning Hetherington’s death.

“I was at a loss for words.

… I didn’t know what to say,” said Hijar Wednesday afternoon, about hearing the news. “I still don’t want to believe it.&rdq aron j hijar biography samples4 CALEK