
FORT CARSON, Colo. — A Fort Carson soldier killed in Iraq was married only three days before he left.
Spec. David J. Goldberg, 20, and Sarah South, 19, had met in January while he was shopping at a Wal-Mart where she worked. They were married in February.
“Thank God for the telephone,” his mother, Dolly Goldberg, said. “They talked a lot and grew quite close. She’s devastated.”
David Goldberg, of Layton, Utah, was killed Wednesday in a non-combat accident in Qayyarah, Iraq, the military said. No details were released.
His family started worrying about him last week when they learned the Army Reservist was supporting a unit that had...