California’s War Dead

    Ty J. Johnson, 28

    Army, Specialist
    Kirkuk, Iraq
    Gender: Male
    Hometown: Elk Grove
    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.... He said he'd be back late that night. He never got to read my e-mail before he died.
    — Corinne Johnson, widow, in the Leaf-Chronicle

    In an e-mail to his twin brother, Johnson wrote about assisting in the Iraqi election. "I'm carrying 32,000 ballots in my Humvee. I'm going to be part of history." His widow told the Leaf-Chronicle of Tennessee that he had been due to leave the service four months before he was killed but was stop-lossed.
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