
Marine Lance Cpl. William W. White, 24, always looked out for his brothers. The last letter he sent home to his mother’s house in Brooklyn, N.Y., included $100 and some advice for the youngest: “Hold your head up high,” White wrote to his 16-year-old brother, Bryan. “I’ll talk to you soon, kid.”
White, a field radio operator, died in Iraq on Saturday, March 29, when his military vehicle rolled into a canal. Family members have streamed to his boyhood home, where an American flag and a picture of the Marine in dress uniform are on display. But comfort was hard to come by for his...