
EUFAULA, Ala. — A 20-year-old Eufaula man became the second Alabama soldier fatally injured in Iraq in less than a week when an explosive device went off near the Humvee in which he was riding in Baghdad, the Pentagon and his family said Monday.
Pvt. Justin R. Yoemans died Saturday at a military hospital about eight hours after being injured in the blast. Yoemans, who joined the Army less than a year ago, had been in Iraq since late August or early September, stepfather Mark Miller said in a telephone interview.
Yoemans loved to fish, hunt and write, and he played tuba in the high school band before entering the service. He spoke with his grandmother by telephone shortly before...