
Ordering flowers for his wife’s birthday was one of Army Cpl. Jonathan A. Markham’s last acts of love.
“He always ordered flowers early,” Stacey Markham said. “He was frugal. Anything to save money.”
Markham, 22, of Bedford, Texas, was killed May 29 in Abu Sayda, Iraq, when his vehicle struck an explosive. The 2003 high school graduate was assigned to Fort Hood, Texas, and was on his second tour.
Markham, who had served on a burial detail at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery, had “an internal drive to be the best, and his competitive spirit was unmatched,” said Capt. Mike A. Punaro.
He loved being a soldier, said his wife, and felt a bond...