
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Fort Drum soldier killed in an explosion in Baghdad was the “perfect husband” who was soon to become a father to twin girls, said his expectant wife in Texas.
Spc. Brian K. Baker, 27, born in Springville, south of Buffalo, was killed Sunday when a vehicle bomb exploded near his patrol, the Department of Defense said.
Amy Roach Baker said her husband of 13 months told her he was filled with a warm feeling when he found out they were expecting identical twins in January.
“I hope they look like him because I need to see him every day,” she told her hometown newspaper, the Midland (Texas) Reporter-Telegram. “I just wish I could feel...