
EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. — When Army Lt. Seth Dvorin flew home from Iraq for two weeks of R&R last month, his family didn’t think it would be the last time they’d see the 24-year-old officer alive.
“I never thought my son was going to get killed,” Richard Dvorin said Wednesday, 24 hours after learning that his son had been killed while trying to disarm a bomb on an Iraqi roadside. “I’m an optimist. I knew my boy was coming back.”
Seth Dvorin was killed Feb. 3 — 17 days after returning to Iraq — near Iskandariyah, 35 miles south of Baghdad, his family told The Star-Ledger of Newark.
He was the only soldier killed in the blast and the 17th...