Elements of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division are engaged in Afghanistan's Wardak Province, southwest of Kabul. The division's Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry, lost 8 killed and 25 wounded in just three months in mid-2009. Twenty-one-year-old Spc. Justin Pellerin, who was killed by a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan Aug. 20, is one such casualty. In the days following his death, Pellerin's friends remembered him, and mourned his loss. David Axe and Jason Reich report for World Politics Review.