Kevin J. Ellenburg killed by I.E.D.

MIDDLEBURG, Fla. (AP) -- The Defense Department reports that a 20-year-old soldier from Middleburg was killed in Iraq.

Army Private Kevin Ellenburg was killed the first of this month in Baghdad after an improvised explosive device exploded near his armored tank.

The son of a Navy veteran, Ellenburg enlisted in September 2005. He was assigned to the First Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, First Brigade, Fourth Infantry Division in Fort Hood, Texas.

A friend says Ellenburg was expected home in December, but planned to re-enlist when his tour was over.

Services for Ellenburg will be held this weekend in Birmingham, Alabama

While in Iraq, Ellenburg listed the way he wanted to die in an online survey. He wrote: "Doing something for my country."

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