The American Greatness of Sgt. La David Johnson
You see things on the news all the time of soldiers passing and you often wonder what that person may of been like, well I know what type of person you were.’
MICHAEL DALY
10.19.17 5:00 AM ET
Sergeant La David Johnson was a hero of another kind long before he enlisted in the army and became a Green Beret and completed one deployment and began another that ended with his death by ambush in a distant land.
To see his six-year-old daughter Ah’leeysa Johnson standing bewildered as her father’s remains were ceremoniously unloaded from a Delta Airlines jet at Miami International Airport on Tuesday was to be reminded that La David had been even younger when he suffered a similarly monumental loss. His mother, Samara Johnson, had died when he was only five and just starting elementary school.
He had there met Myeshia Manuel, the little girl who would grow up to become his widow and weep on the tarmac over his flag draped coffin.
Through all the years after his mother’s death, La David had remained a happy and helpful soul, staying in school and out of trouble. He graduated from Miami Carol City Senior High School in 2010 and worked at Walmart in the produce section.
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Thank you for your service to America 
Our condolences to your heartbroken family.
