An Arkansas soldier was among the 14 dead from that Black Hawk helicopter crash in northern Iraq.
Spc. Tyler R. Seideman, 20, of Lincoln was killed when the helicopter went down Aug. 23 due to apparent mechanical problems. No one aboard survived.
Family friend Gail True told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that Seideman had been in Iraq for about a year. She said Seideman graduated from Lincoln High School and attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville before enlis