Last September, David Johnson called Jeff Plake, the campus pastor at Evangel University. It wasn’t like Johnson, a 2010 Evangel graduate from Mayville, Wisconsin, to call out of the blue, but he had some big news.
Johnson, a first lieutenant in the Army, had earned command of his own platoon. And he was going to Afghanistan. “He said, ‘I’m excited and a little terrified,’ ” Plake said.
On Wednesday, Johnson was killed in Afghanistan, after deploying in December.