
WILSON, N.C. — A soldier who had been on his second tour in Iraq was buried Saturday and posthumously received a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for his 10 months of service in Iraq.
Cpl. Phillip Edmundson, 22, died June 1 when his Bradley fighting vehicle was blown up by an enemy mine. Edmundson, who was buried at Evergreen Memorial Garden, was the first serviceman from this town of 42,000 to die in combat in Iraq.
While it’s likely that Edmundson was a gunner on the Bradley vehicle when it struck the mine, the Army has not yet released information on the circumstances of his death or what happened to his fellow soldiers in the armored carrier.
Edmundson, the son of...