They long to see him walk through the door of his family's home in Vienna -- muscular, dark-eyed, big-hearted Jonathan. The combat medic. The oldest son. The 21-year-old who had planned to fly back from Iraq in June for the birth of his first child.

His father knows this won't happen. Cpl. Jonathan D. Winterbottom was killed May 23 by a makeshift bomb in Nahrawan, Iraq. But seven months later, the wish for him exceeds all reason: Jonathan home, now, at the holidays, just as he was before...