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IED kills soldier from Pennsylvania

DOUGLASSVILLE, Pa. — Family members say the son of a Berks County couple has been killed in Iraq.

Relatives say 26-year-old Army 1st Lt. Nathan Raudenbush was killed Wednesday afternoon in southern Baghdad. He was patrolling in a Humvee destroyed by a roadside bomb. Two other soldiers were wounded.

Raudenbush was the son of Brian and Mary Raudenbush of Earl Township. He was a 2001 graduate of Spring-Ford High School in Royersford.

Brian Raudenbush says his son was a longtime member of the Boy Scouts of America, and enjoyed distance running and golf. He is survived his wife, Casey, and their 20-month-old son, Jackson, of Port Wentworth, Ga.

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