Carl Thomas
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Age: 29
From: Phoenix.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Sgt. Carl Thomas was killed Sept. 13 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his observation post in Baghdad.
Died: September 13, 2004
Ex-Arizona man killed by homemade explosive in Iraq
Associated Press
INKSTER, Mich.— A Detroit native who was killed when a homemade explosive detonated near his Army observation post in Iraq has come home to Michigan for burial.
Sgt. Carl Thomas, 29, and another soldier from Fort Hood, Texas, died Sept. 13 in Baghdad. Thomas was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment.
He and wife Lanea had three children, 10-year-old Dariaun, 9-year-old Nataisha and 5-year-old Rayqwaun. They lived in Phoenix before Thomas’s assignment to Fort Hood.
The day before his death, mother Alfeeria Johnson of Inkster sat at her computer for a weekly e-mail chat with her son. They talked about how much they looked forward to seeing each other in a few weeks and made plans to celebrate with a barbecue.
“He sounded OK, and he told me to wait on making my flight arrangements,” Johnson told the Detroit Free Press. “He was...