Patriot Guard Mission for SPC Anthony Blount

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Another brave US Army soldier has passed on.
The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died April 7 in Mosul, Iraq, when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with an improvised explosive device. The Soldiers were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, Fort Stewart, Ga..

SPC Anthony Blount, 21, of Petal, MS, died Wednesday during a roadside blast in northern Iraq, according to family.
Blount was serving with the 164th Infantry Bravo Company. He joined the Army roughly a year ago, his father, Billy Blount, said.
“It’s been pretty rough, a lot of our cell phones have been going off,” Billy Blount said. “It’s great, I mean, the morning after we found out... a guy from his unit who was on leave came and talked with us and cried with us.”
Anthony Blount’s wife, Amanda, is eight months pregnant with his daughter, Avery. He was scheduled for a leave to see her birth, Billy said.
For more information, read Saturday’s Hattiesburg American.

Here are a few photos from Saturday's Mission.