On Thursday, July 28, the family and friends of Private LaVena Johnson, the first female soldier from Missouri to die while serving in the current war in Iraq, gathered at Jefferson Barracks National ...
“The military came to my door on July 19th at 7:30 in the morning. The moment my wife looked out the window and she said ‘John, it’s a soldier standing on the porch,’ I knew it was bad news,” ...