
LOS ANGELES — A soldier and aspiring police officer killed in Iraq last month was remembered as a hero to his country as he was laid to rest on Aug. 2.
Army Sgt. Evan Ashcraft , 24, an infantryman with the 101st Airborne Division, was one of three soldiers killed in Iraq on July 24 when the convoy in which he was traveling came under attack from gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades. Ashcraft’s division led the fiery assault in northern Iraq that killed Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay.
Nearly 400 people filled the Prince of Peace Episcopal Church in Woodland Hills for a memorial service Saturday. Ashcraft was buried later in the day with full military honors in the...