
A Fort Bragg soldier who died in a Black Hawk helicopter crash is being mourned by family as well as friends at a Georgia high school he visited before he was deployed to Iraq.
Felix Johnson said he last talked with his son, 22-year-old Army Spc. Nathaniel H. Johnson, when Johnson called him from a hospital in Baghdad, near where he was stationed with the 82nd Airborne Division.
“He was just an all-around good fellow,” Felix Johnson said Friday, crying. “And I’m going to miss him a lot.”
Johnson, a paratrooper from Augusta, Ga., was among the nine soldiers killed when their helicopter was shot down in Iraq, according to the military. The UH-60...