Family Mourns Iowa Soldier Killed in Kuwait

“My wife had sent another message to him. We didn’t hear back. Most of us started to wonder. And your gut starts to get a feeling. And then we were going — we go to bed fairly early, so we got ready Sunday night to go to bed, and we just turned the lights off and went into the bedroom. And the doorbell rang at 8 p.m.” “This was the morning before we dropped him off for him to leave. He was our cat Autumn’s favorite. I still don’t fully think it’s real. I didn’t think it was real when they told us, because I just remember all of our conversations about what he was going to do when he came back. And so I’ll just be sitting and thinking about it. And then, I don’t — It’s just, it’s really hard. I just wish he could have known one more time that we all loved him. Because he was so amazing and kind.”