The 23-year-old Schofield Barracks private killed Tuesday in a firefight while on patrol in Baghdad was planning to marry the mother of his infant son when he returned from Iraq next spring.
Pfc. Christopher A. McCraw, 23, of Columbia, Miss., was wounded when his patrol encountered small-arms fire in Nasar Wa Salam, the Pentagon reported yesterday.
"The whole family is pretty much in shock," the soldier's uncle Jerry McCraw told the Associated Press. "It's about the worst thing you can have is a military chaplain and (a sergeant) show up at your house."