
As a youngster, Christian Schulz used to build tanks out of Legos and play video games involving tanks. Then, a childhood camping trip with the Boy Scouts to Fort Hood, Texas, where he slept on the range and ate with soldiers, sealed his dream of joining the military. "I had no idea he had been smitten so badly at the time," said his father, Bob Schulz. Spc. Schulz, a 20-year old armored crewman from Colleyville, Texas, was killed in Baqubah, Iraq, on July 11 by a non-hostile firearm discharge. He was stationed at Fort Hood. He died on his father's 47th birthday. Schulz joined the Army in June 2001 after studying aircraft engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington for a year. "This kid was so adventurous," Bob Schulz said. "He had a...