Staff Sgt George Thomas Alexander, Jr
Born: August 5, 1971 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia
Died: October 22, 2005 in San Antonio, Texas
Staff Sgt. George T. Alexander Jr., of Killeen, Texas took his first breath in a military hospital, the son of Anne and George T. Alexander Sr., who is retired from the Army. It was no surprise when George Jr decided to make the Army his career. He grew up in Clanton after he and his mother moved there when he was just two years old. He graduated in 1989 from Chilton County High School and worked a construction job before joining the United States Army in October 1991. During his fourteen year military career he served in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, deploying to the Middle East several times. George had been home twice since the Iraq war began in 2003, once on leave and the second time after he broke his wrist. His sister had just had a new baby, and George had asked her to send pictures the day before he was injured. George was born into the Army in Northern Virginia, at DeWitt Army Hospital at Fort Belvoir and he died at Brooke Army Medical Center of injuries sustained in Samarra, Iraq, on Oct. 17, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Bradley Fighting Vehicle. He was 34. George is believed to be the 2000th soldier to be killed in Iraq
Army
Company A
1st Battalion
Fort Benning, Georgia
Burial is at Agee Memory Gardens in Clanton, Alabama
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