Antwan L. Walker
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Age: 22
From: Tampa, Fla.
Assigned to the 2nd Forward Support Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.
Incident: Army Sgt. Antwan L. Walker was killed May 18 when his camp was attacked by enemy forces using indirect fire in Ramadi, Iraq.
Died: May 18, 2005
Florida soldier killed in Iraq bomb blast
Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — Sgt. Antwan Walker was excited about coming home from Iraq to celebrate his 23rd birthday with his family and friends next Sunday. His mother, Andrea Pringle, was busy planning the party when an Army official unexpectedly came to her house.
She said he told her Thursday that her son was killed the previous day by a bomb blast in Ramadi. The Department of Defense hasn’t publicly confirmed his death.
The East Bay High graduate known as Twan joined the Army in 2000. Pringle said her son joined to earn money for college.
“Twan had a lot of goals in life,” Pringle said. “He was very ambitious and very smart.”
Walker, who was based at Fort Stewart, Ga., had been in Iraq for about a year. Walker called his family often but didn’t want to talk about war. Instead, he talked about starting a real estate career and his three children. He had...
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