Martin W Kondor

Martin W. Kondor was a popular student and president of his high school class, and fond of cars and motorcycles. He also was determined to enlist in the Army and attend college later. "After 9/11, he was determined to do something to help. He wanted to sign up. I neither encouraged him nor discouraged him, but I supported him," said his father, Michael Kondor. Pfc. Kondor, 20, York, Pa., was killed April 29 when an improvised explosive detonated near his Humvee in Baqubah, Iraq. He was based in Vilseck, Germany. He and his fiancee, Lynne Notchey, had planned to marry when he returned from overseas, his father said. Michael Kondor said he had talked to his son several days before his death. "It was tough," he said. "Toward the end there, he was...