
TULSA, Okla. — Jordan Ward has questions about how her soldier husband died but the Army hasn’t provided many answers.
Pvt. Jason M. Ward had complained that he wasn’t feeling well when he called home from Iraq. But the Army’s description of Jason Ward’s death in Baghdad as “non-combat related” didn’t include if the stomach and intestinal problems he had played a role.
For the last several weeks, the illness seemed to worsen and, according to a phone call he made to his mother last week, the Army was sending him back to the United States, presumably for treatment.
The family expected to see the 25-year-old by the weekend.
“It was the hardest...