Falls City soldier killed in Iraq LINCOLN, NE (NET Radio) - Twenty-five-year-old First Lieutenant Jacob Fritz of Falls City was among five American soldiers killed on Saturday. They died when militia fighters attacked a provincial government building in the Shiite holy city of Karbala. Fritz was a 2000 graduate of Dawson-Verdon High School in southeast Nebraska, where he was an avid athlete and active in an anti-drug group. © Copyright 2021, NET Radio