Army Spc. Wright was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Battalion, 42nd Field Artillery Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas. Wright was killed in an ambush by small arms fire and rocket propelled grenade in Tikrit. James, known as Jimmy by his family and friends, loved cars. When he was still in high school, he bought a low-riding pick-up truck and spent hours upon hours outfitting it. In Iraq, Jimmy was the proud driver of a Humvee. He graduated in the early 1990’s from Oak Hills High School and Diamond Oaks Vocational School and entered the Marines in 1996, serving four years on a tour that took him to Bosnia, Greece, Turkey and Italy. Jimmy met his wife while they both were stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C. - where she also was in the Marines at the time. He was assigned to be her escort around base for security reasons. After both finished four-year tours in the Marines in 2000, they briefly lived in Delhi Township until April 2001, when they moved to Waco, Tex., where Jimmy worked as a landscape equipment operator. But after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, both decided to re-enter the military and join the U.S. Army. He told his wife it was time for him to put the uniform back on. He couldn't sit back and not do anything. Jimmy was looking forward to becoming a father for the first time and was hoping to get home a few months after the birth of his son, expected in December. He received the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, the Armed Forces Services Medal, and the Good Conduct Medal.∼Wright was looking forward to becoming a father for the first time and was hoping to get home a few months after the birth of his son, expected in December. "He was so excited about the baby," said his brother, Edward Wright II. "Now he won't ever have the chance to see him." James Wright, 27, from suburban Cincinnati, was killed Sept. 18 during an ambush in Tikrit, Iraq. Wright, stationed at Fort Hood, had served two years in the Army after four years with the Marines. Edward Wright II said he had been planning for his brother's return. "I was going to let him think I couldn't get off work and then we were all going to be there in Texas when he got off the plane," he said. Alina Wright, also based at Fort Hood, knew one thing for sure: "I am going to tell our baby what a great dad he was," she said, "and how good of a man he was."