Family grieves for local soldier killed in Iraq
When Capt. Jason Hamill was in Baghdad, he used to show the local Iraqis a picture of his nephew, a toddler whom he’d promised to teach baseball when he got a little older. He would say the boy was his son because he knew how much children were valued in Iraqi culture. While Jason had a wife in Texas, he didn’t want to have kids until he could be there to watch them grow up.
Military head talks ‘strat, tech and war’
