
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The pregnant wife of a soldier killed March 31 in Iraq had been waiting for his return in Charlotte, where she worked as a substitute teacher in a church nursery school and tried to distract herself by working in the garden.
Leslie and Doyle Hufstedler met at Texas A&M University three years ago while they picked up class rings. He proposed to her in the end zone at halftime of a football game and joined the Army as a second lieutenant.
He was assigned to the 1st Engineer Battalion based at Fort Riley, Kan. Doyle Hufstedler, 25, of Abilene, Texas, was among five who died Wednesday when a bomb detonated under their M-113 in...