
Joseph Nice seemed to be interested in everything. The straight-A student played the saxophone, was learning the drums, drew landscapes and played several sports. He dreamed of becoming a lawyer, and a Marine. “ He fulfilled his dream," Lloyd Nice III said of his son. "He stood his ground on what he wanted out of life." The 19-year-old from Nicoma Park, Okla., was killed Aug. 4 in Iraq's Anbar province. He was based at Twentynine Palms, Calif. Mary Sneed often joked around with her grandson, gently chiding him when he'd spend an hour in the bathroom to make sure everything was "just so." "I mean this in a good way, but he was a nerd, very polite, very easygoing," she said of the boy who used to cook for her. The two were planning...