
FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq — It was sad, and sadly unremarkable.
Army Spc. Christopher D. Kube was memorialized July 19 in a packed theater at this outpost in east Baghdad. Another fallen soldier. Another reminder, far from the public spotlight, of the grief that hits not only families of this war’s casualties but also their comrades in arms.
He was 18.
He was a newlywed.
He was killed July 14, eight months after he arrived in Iraq on a deployment that made him nervous from the start, as one fellow soldier remembered. Back at his home station, Fort Carson, Colo., he drew attention...