
PEKIN, Ind. — A soldier from southern Indiana died over the weekend during an explosion in Iraq, the Department of Defense said.
Army Spc. Clinton C. Blodgett, 19, was killed May 26 in Baghdad when the vehicle in which he was riding was struck by an improvised bomb, the military said May 29. Blodgett was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, which is based in Schweinfurt, Germany.
Blodgett’s hometown was listed by the military as the Washington County town of Pekin, 25 miles north of Louisville, Ky.
His father, Don Blodgett, lives in Wilson, Okla. The younger Blodgett, who was in Iraq a little more than a year, returned to Wilson to visit his family...