A bittersweet story of a life and death in Iraq

The moment Capt. Brian Freeman walked into the restaurant, Charlotte knew he was the man she would marry. She doesn’t know if he felt the same, but he walked right over to her table and asked the person sitting next to her to move. For the rest of the evening he sat at her side, talking, finally holding hands.

They fell in love and got married, just as Charlotte knew they would, in the spring – May 1, 2004. They had a child together. She saw an unknown drive in him, the kind that could change the world.

“He had this way of seeing a vision and just making it reality,” Charlotte said during an i...