MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — While the U.S. mourns the nation’s fallen service members on Memorial Day, Miami Gardens remembers the late Sgt. La David T. Johnson.
The 25-year-old U.S. Army soldier assumed a second fighting position during heavy enemy fire on Oct. 4, 2017, near the village of Tongo Tongo in southwest Niger, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Johnson, a wheeled vehicle mechanic on patrol with the 3rd Special Forces Group, took cover behind thick brush, continuing to fight under enemy fire from a vehicle-mounted heavy machine gun, according to DOD…