This from The News Tribune: A 2004 Yelm High School graduate was among six soldiers killed Sunday in a suicide attack at a military base in southern Afghanistan.

Cpl. Sean M. Collins was killed in a massive blast at a military outpost in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, the Defense Department reported.

Collins, 25, died doing a job he loved, his mother said.

"He always wanted to be in the Army since he was in kindergarten," Linda Collins said Tuesday evening. "He wanted to be on the ground, up front."

Collins was the first service member with ties to the South Sound to die in Afghanistan in nearly five months.

The attack was carried out with 1,000 pounds of explosives loaded into a minibus that wouldn't stop when Afghan guards tried to halt it, Maj. Gen. John Campbell reported in a video conference Tuesday.

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