Todd E Nunes

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Staff Sgt. Todd E. Nunes was a member of the high-school wrestling team, a good student and a talented artist. “He could draw anything he saw,” said Shelah Crick, a family friend. “I had always told him one of these days he was going to work for Hallmark because he was such a good artist.”

Nunes, 29, of Chapel Hill, Tenn., was killed May 2 in Kirkuk, Iraq, by an improvised bomb and small-arms fire. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division (Light) at Schofield.

His mother, Barbara Nunes, said she had visited her son and his family in Honolulu last year and that he had been eager to join his brother who was already serving in...