
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — A sailor from Jacksonville has been killed in action in Iraq.
The family of Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Julian Woods, 22, who was attached to a Marine unit, was told early Thursday that he was killed Wednesday in Fallujah in an assault on insurgents.
Woods, 22, was a star football player at Ed White High School in Jacksonville. He joined the Navy soon after graduation in 2000.
“He was a joy,” Woods’ mother, Carolyn, tears streaming down her cheeks, told WTLV-TV. “They took my child, but I’m proud.”
Woods was in the fourth year of a six-year enlistment. He had a 3-year-old daughter, Israel, who is with her mother, also in the Navy, based in...