Damian L Heidelberg

In their last conversation before Pfc. Damian L. Heidelberg left for Iraq, his childhood friend Jerry Jones Jr. told him not to go and get himself killed. "He just told me that he was trying to make something of himself," Jones said. "He was trying to make it for his family and his baby." The 21-year-old administrative specialist from Shubuta, Miss., was killed Nov. 15 when two Black Hawk helicopters collided in Iraq. He was based at Fort Campbell, Ky. Heidelberg, a former choir member and church usher, was "a wonderful young man, sweet and mild-mannered," said Phyllis Heidelberg, his aunt. "He was slow to speak, loved to go to church and always had a big smile." Jones said the two were inseparable as children. "That was my...