William A. Blount
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Age: 21
From: Petal, MS
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Incident: Army Pfc. William A. Blount died April 7 in Mosul, Iraq, when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device
Died: April 07, 2010
Plans for Blount’s funeral finalized
By Tim Doherty
Hattiesburg (Miss.) American via Gannett News Service
The Petal soldier killed in Iraq last week will soon be back home for burial.
The body of William Anthony Blount is expected to be flown early April 15 from Dover, Del., to Hattiesburg.
Viewing will be at 6 p.m. that day at Moore Funeral Home in Petal, with the funeral service scheduled for 11:30 a.m. April 17 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Oak Grove. Burial is to follow at Highland Cemetery in Hattiesburg.
Blount, 21, served with 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, out of Fort Stewart, Ga. He was one of two killed April 7 when his unit’s vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Mosul, Iraq.
Blount and his commanding officer, Lt. Robert Wilson Collins of Tyrone, Ga., were the most recent American casualties in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
According to the Department of Defense Web site’s...