
DALLAS — A 20-year-old soldier killed in an ambush in Iraq had just finished a month-long leave at home after a one-year tour of duty in South Korea.
Pvt. Ryan Michael McCauley died Sunday, just 17 days after leaving family, friends in Lewisville. Before shipping out, he confided in his friends.
“He wasn’t, like, not wanting to go — he was just scared,” Donald Templeton, 20, of Lewisville told The Dallas Morning News in Wednesday editions. “He had a feeling deep down that something bad was going to happen. We both kind of did.”
McCauley was on foot patrol Sunday when he was ambushed in the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Army officials told his family...