Palmer sergeant killed by bomb in Iraq

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WASILLA -- He dreamed of becoming a teacher and that dream took him into the military, onto a path he expected would lead to a college education.

The dream ended when Sgt. Kurtis Dean Kama-O-Apelila Arcala, 22, died Sunday in Iraq, the first casualty of the war from Palmer and the second from this state to die there in a week.

Arcala, assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division, lost his life to a roadside bomb alongside a convoy in Balad, Iraq, according to his family and friends. His mother said she was told he died in a hospital of his wounds.

Another soldier of the 3rd Infantry Division, Matthew Bohling, also 22, of Eagle River, was to be buried this week at Fort Richardson National Cemetery. Bohling died Sept. 5, also the victim of a roadside bomb in Iraq.

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