
ENTERPRISE, Ala. — An Army sergeant from Alabama saved the life of another soldier while losing his own to insurgent fire in Iraq, family members said.
Sgt. William Edward Brown, 25, who graduated from Phil Campbell High School and had moved his family to Enterprise with plans to attend flight school at Fort Rucker in October, died June 23 from a mortar attack near Taji, about 12 miles north of Baghdad.
Survivors include his wife, Rachel, who moved to Enterprise earlier this year to prepare for his homecoming, and two children, Ethan, 6, and Tyler, 2.
Brown’s mother, Theresa Kyser of Daleville, said her son and two other soldiers were...