A post office in Cleveland, Ga., now bears the name of a Fort Lewis Stryker soldier killed in Iraq in 2007.

Sgt. Jason Robert Harkins was killed on May 6 in Baqouba with give other soldiers from the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division and a Russian photojournalist when a bomb exploded under their Stryker.

The explosion flipped the 20-ton vehicle upside down, and then soldiers came under fire from a nearby mosque. Harkins, 25, and his wife lived in Lakewood at the time of his death. It was his second deployment.

Friends, family members, community leaders and politicians attended the renaming ceremony on Sunday, The Gainesville Times reports. Harkins' mother, Nancy Fritchey, wore her Purple Heart, Bronze Star and Silver Star, the newspaper reported.

Harkins received a posthumous Silver Star for his actions March 17 in Baqouba. Despite being wounded in the ambush, he organized a quick perimeter to outgun attackers and helped evacuate three wounded soldiers. He died less than two months later.

Renaming a post office requires Congressional approval. Rep. Nathan Deal introduced the measure, which passed the House in February and the Senate in April. President Bush signed the bill into law on May 7.

The Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Ga., has a profile of Col. Tom Macdonald, Fort Benning's new garrison commander.

As the first few paragraphs of the story say, Macdonald spent some of the most influential years of his childhood in the South Sound, attending Lakes High School in Lakewood.