American Fork soldier killed in Iraq combat

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AMERICAN FORK — Four-year-old Kai Alleman didn't cry when his mother sat him down Monday and told him his father, a specialist for the Army, wouldn't be coming home from Iraq. He didn't kick and scream. He didn't throw a fit.

He looked his mother in the eye and told her matter-of-factly, "I'm going to go to Diraq (how he and his father jokingly referred to the Middle Eastern country) and I'm going to bring Dada home," said his grandmother, Susan Alleman, as she reminisced Tuesday night over photos of Kai and his brother, Kennet, 6, laughing with their father, Micheal, who died Monday in combat near Balad.

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