
DETROIT — The family of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq plans to fulfill his last wish — to bury him in Germany where he had planned to raise a family with his German wife.
Army Spc. Joseph P. Micks, 22, of Rapid River, Michigan, died Saturday in Ramadi, Iraq, when a makeshift bomb detonated near his vehicle, the Pentagon said. Two other soldiers from the 54th Engineer Battalion died in the explosion.
Micks was just months away from finishing his tour in Iraq and had plans to rejoin his wife in Germany, his mother, Amy Micks, said in a telephone interview.
“He wanted to go and make a difference,” she said Monday night. “He...