
Army Pfc. Casey S. Carriker was one to question everything, which could get him into trouble sometimes. He was interested in philosophy, ethics, human behavior and how people think and feel.
“The world came at him from a different angle,” said his father, Terry. “He had an abstract personality. Things didn’t hit him the same way. He had a way of looking at a situation and seeing something totally different than what other people got out of it.”
Carriker, 20, of Hoquiam, Wash., died June 13 in Kirkuk, Iraq, in a non-combat-related incident. He was a 2005 high school graduate and was assigned to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
Carriker always had a book with him...