
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A 20-year-old Colorado Springs man was one of eight soldiers killed in a roadside bombing in Iraq at the end of April.
Pfc. Ryan E. Reed from the 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment in the 1st Armored Division out of Baumholder, Germany, was killed April 29 near the town of Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, the military said in a statement.
A driver in a station wagon neared the team, then “detonated an explosive device,” military officials said.
Alicia Reed said she knew something was wrong when her husband of four months didn’t call on April 30. He called nearly every morning from Iraq or e-mailed...