Carl Johnson laid to rest

On a cold and gray morning of October 27th, when the rain was hanging in the air and the wind touched the trees a funeral service was held for Army Cpl. Carl Johnson II. He was the 268th person killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. He was the only son of Peggy Johnson Crocker in a family of three daughters.

The funeral service was quiet and brief. Mother Peggy Johnson Crocker arrived at 11:30am accompanied by her daughters Chanta Crocker, Rebecca Worrell and Teshia Johnson with families. They were all seated under the tent that covered the burial ground where the casket was set. The ceremony was done as custom with the Firing Party, a bugler to played Taps, and the folding of the U.S flag that was presented over to Mrs. Peggy Johnson by BG Charles Anderson.

Cpl. Carl Johnson was a member of the second Battalion, Third Brigade, Second Infantry Division, based at Fort Lewis he had been in Iraq since February 2006 and was due home in January 2007.

From WPVI 6

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