Brad S Shuder

Brad S. Shuder signed up for the Marine Corps soon after his 18th birthday, making for a dramatic change in lifestyle: He was a gourmet cook who wanted to open a bakery, a man who wore designer fashions and took dates to the opera. "He was a genuine person," said his longtime friend Kurt Hall. "He was someone who you could trust to be a real friend when you needed one." The 21-year-old Camp Pendleton Marine from El Dorado Hills, Calif., was killed April 12 by hostile fire in Iraq’s Anbar province. Shuder seemed to know he might die on his second tour in Iraq. "He told us that he felt he wouldn't be coming back," his father, Glenn Shuder, said. But he wouldn't listen to his family's pleas to request a change in assignment. He felt...