
RALEIGH, N.C. — Two soldiers from North Carolina were killed by roadside bombs in Iraq during the past week, family members said.
Spc. Ebe Emolo, 33, of Greensboro, was killed April 8 with three other members of the 82nd Airborne Division based at Fort Bragg. Pfc. Brian Lee Holden, 20, of Claremont, was a gunner with the 17th Field Artillery Regiment from Fort Carson, Colo., when he was killed April 9, his family said.
Emolo, who was born in Ivory Coast in western Africa, had two goals: to become a U.S. citizen and join the Army, said his sister, Sabine Wiggins. He achieved both before he died.
“This is something he wanted to do,” Wiggins said April...