Sgt. DeForest L. “Dee” Talbert of the Dunbar-based 1st Battalion of the 150th Armor Regiment was killed Tuesday in Iraq.

Talbert was a star running back at T.C. Williams High School, the school that served as the setting for the 2000 movie “Remember the Titans.” During his high school grid career, he picked up the nickname “Touchdown Talbert.”

He enrolled at West Virginia State in 2000, but did not play football. The Alexandria newspaper quoted Talbert’s girlfriend, Frances Hamilett, whom he met at State, as saying that “he just wanted to get away from his environment and do something with his life.”

According to the radio this morning, he was schedule to return 19 August.

Chronological list of soldiers killed
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Fallen Heroes Memorial