
SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Pfc. Caesar Viglienzone often lamented the conditions he endured in Iraq in emails home and postings on his Web site, but he never stopped believing in his work there, relatives said.
“In his last e-mail to his cousin, Sam, he said, ‘Iraq is definitely going to be OK. ... The vast majority of Iraqis want us here, not to keep occupying their county forever but want us to stay, finish the job and pass the torch on to them,”’ the soldier’s uncle Ray Viglienzone said Friday.
Viglienzone, 21, and two others died doing that job when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Baghdad on Wednesday, the Department of Defense announced...