Indiana soldier killed

INDIANAPOLIS -- A U.S. soldier killed in the largest allied air and ground offensive of the war in Afghanistan grew up in Indianapolis and leaves behind relatives in central Indiana.\nPfc. Matthew A. Commons, of Boulder City, Nev., was among seven U.S. soldiers killed Monday when al Qaeda and Taliban fighters, using machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, fired on two troop-carrying helicopters.\nThe 21-year-old Indianapolis native lived on the city's east side until about the 5th grade, when he moved to Boulder City, a Las Vegas suburb, Indianapolis television station WISH reported in a story Tuesday night.\nCommons, who was single, was an Army Ranger for more than a year and a half, said his grandmother, Martha Commons, of Indianapolis.\n"His father did the same thing after high school. He went into the Marine Corps after high school," she said. "So I guess history repeats itself."\nShe described her grandson as "full of fun."\n"I have some misgivings about war -- period," she said. "I'm not bitter. I would prefer that we weren't over there."\nCommons' parents and three brothers live in Virginia.\nHis large, extended family, who live in Indianapolis, plans to travel to Virginia for Matthew Commons' funeral on Monday. He will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.