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Ty J. Johnson
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Name: Army Spc. Ty J. Johnson
Age: 28
From: Elk Grove, Calif.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
Incident: Army Spc. Ty J. Johnson was killed April 4 when an improvised device detonated near his Humvee during combat operations in Kirkuk, Iraq.
Died: April 04, 2006
101st soldier had purpose fighting the war on terrorism, says wife
By Chantal Escoto
The Leaf-Chronicle
Age: 28
From: Elk Grove, Calif.
Assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
Incident: Army Spc. Ty J. Johnson was killed April 4 when an improvised device detonated near his Humvee during combat operations in Kirkuk, Iraq.
Died: April 04, 2006
101st soldier had purpose fighting the war on terrorism, says wife
By Chantal Escoto
The Leaf-Chronicle
Corinne Johnson of Fort Campbell was visiting her mother-in-law in Elk Grove, Calif., on Tuesday when she got a knock on the door.
It was a notification officer with news that Spc. Ty J. Johnson, 28, had been killed that day in Kirkuk, Iraq.
“You don’t expect to get that when you’re on vacation,” Mrs. Johnson said.
“I’d received an e-mail from him the night before. He always liked to talk to me before he’d go out on missions,” she said. “It made him feel better.
“He said he’d be back late that night. He never got to read my e-mail before he died.”
Johnson, a field artillery surveyor with the...
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the 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
Incident
Army Spc. Ty J. Johnson was killed April 4 when an improvised device detonated near his Humvee during combat operations in Kirkuk, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Ty J. Johnson
2006-10-27
You were truly an American hero. The world was a better place because you were in it.
Rest in Peace. You will be sorely missed.
Ty J. Johnson
2006-05-13
O God, by whose mercy the faithful departed find rest, look kindly on Your departed veteran who gave his life in the service of his country. Grant that through the passion, death, and resurrection of Your Son he may share in the joy of Your heavenly kingdom and rejoice in You with Your saints forever.
I ask this through Christ our Lord.
I ask this through Christ our Lord.
Ty J. Johnson
2006-05-13
Almighty God, we remember this day before thee thy faithful servant Ty J. Johnson; and we pray that, having opened to him the gates of larger life, thou wilt receive him more and more into thy joyful service, that, with all who have faithfully served thee in the past, he may share in the eternal victory of Jesus Christ our Lord; who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.