Allen C. Johnson
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Age: 31
From: Los Molinos, Calif.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Incident: Army Sgt. 1st Class Allen C. Johnson died April 26 in Khanaqin, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when enemy forces using small-arms fire attacked his patrol.
Died: April 26, 2005
Senior NCO from Calif. killed in Afghanistan
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Sgt. 1st Class Allen C. Johnson, a Special Forces medical sergeant, saw “The Polar Express” in November with his wife, Staff Sgt. Eunice Johnson.
They both cried during the movie, which was their final outing before he was deployed to Afghanistan and she to Iraq.
“We were missing our kids,” she said.
Allen Johnson, 31, was killed April 26 when his unit was attacked in Khanaquin, Afghanistan. He was born in Sun Valley, attended elementary and middle schools in Burbank and joined the military shortly after his 1991 graduation from Los Molinos High School in Northern California.
The couple’s children, Joshua, 3, and Naomi, 1, stayed with Allen Johnson’s parents when their parents went overseas.
“He was very proud of his children,” Eunice Johnson said. “Joshua and Naomi made him laugh a lot. He’d put Josh on his back and...
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