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| | HeraldNet: Iraq cooled a father's quest for revenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | It was on Easter morning 2004 that a chaplain and a colonel appeared on Joe and Jan Johnson's Georgia doorstep with the news that their soldier son who had gone to Iraq only a month before was dead at 22, killed by a roadside bomb in a Baghdad slum. |
 | | Today, it's Joe Johnson who mans the M-240 atop a Humvee, warily watching the sides of the road, an unlikely Army corporal at 48, a father who came here for revenge, a Christian missionary on a crusade against Islam, and a man who, after six months at war, is ready to go home. |
 | | Most of all, it might have been the telephone calls home to Jan Johnson, who was dealing not only with depression and other health problems, but also with the prospect that their elder soldier son, Josh, 26, might be sent to Iraq or Afghanistan. |
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