Gavin J. Colburn
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Age: 20
From: Frankfort, Ohio
Assigned to the 542nd Transportation Company, Army Reserve, Kingsbury, Ind.
Incident: Army Pfc. Gavin J. Colburn was killed April 22 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his convoy vehicle as he was traveling along a supply route in Iraq.
Died: April 22, 2005
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Ohio soldier killed by roadside bomb in Iraq
Associated Press
FRANKFORT, Ohio — A 20-year-old Ohio soldier who planned to go to college and study law was killed in Iraq when a roadside bomb exploded near his convoy.
Pfc. Gavin Colburn, of Frankfort, was killed Friday, the military said. Frankfort is about 40 miles south of Columbus.
Colburn had been serving with the Army Reserve’s 542nd Transportation Company, based in Kingsbury, Indiana.
His mother, Tina Stevens, said the last time she spoke with her son, he talked as if he wasn’t in any immediate danger. He was last home on leave in February, and told family and friends things were going well in the Army.
“He was my whole world, and he was going somewhere,” Stevens said. “The one thing that he did tell me was that if anything ever happened, he was where he wanted to be ... (and) I should go on because he was doing what...
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Gavin
May he rest in peace