
All Eugene Williams wanted was a little home cooking.
That’s what his older sister, Lori Ackert, remembers most from a letter he sent her. It arrived Saturday, March 29. “He was very optimistic — he wrote that he couldn’t wait to come home so he could cook us some good food,” she told the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal.
Just hours earlier, Williams had been among the four soldiers killed by the suicide car bomber near Najaf in south-central Iraq.
A laid-back man with a love for soulful R&B music, Williams, 24, had planned to finish a demo tape showcasing his singing. Although he aspired to...