Died in Kadhimiyah, Iraq on May 06, 2007.
From West Valley, UT, Virgil was 33 years old.
Died May 6 in Kadhimiyah, of wounds sustained when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using an improvised explosive device and small arms fire in Baghdad. [source: Faces of the Fallen]
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(The Salt Lake Tribune, May 14, 2007)