
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Larry J. Bauguess Jr. played tic-tac-toe with his young daughters over e-mail and just last month sent a note home from Afghanistan saying a videotaped message he received from the girls “was the best thing ever.”
But on May 15, the 36-year-old Army major’s family was mourning his death, a day after he was killed by enemy small-arms fire in Pakistan, the Department of Defense said.
“We are left with many joyous and happy memories, and we are left with a lot of sadness of unfulfilled dreams,” his wife, Wesley Bauguess, said in a statement.
Bauguess, of Moravian Falls, was an operations officer with the 4th Brigade Combat Team’s...