Army Pvt. Johnathon M. Millican

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Army Pvt. Johnathon M. Millican, 20, of Trafford, Ala.

Pvt. Millican was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska; died Jan. 20 in Karbala, Iraq, from wounds sustained when his patrol was ambushed while conducting dismounted operations.

"You don't have to love the war," Pvt. Johnathon M. Millican wrote on his MySpace page, "but you have to love the warrior."

He was one of four soldiers killed after militants abducted them Jan. 20 from the governor's office in Karbala, Iraq, in a sophisticated sneak attack, the military confirmed Friday.

Millican, 20, of Trafford, Ala., had been talking with his wife, Shannon, by Web cam the day he was abducted, said Linda Hill of Locust Fork, whom Millican lived with for 2 1/2 years before graduating high school.

"She heard somebody holler for them to run, and John took off. She said it was later that his computer was logged off," Hill said. Hill said Shannon Millican told her that night her husband had been killed.

Millican, a former high school football player and a member of an airborne artillery brigade, had been in Iraq about three months.

The Mercury News -- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A 20-year-old Army private from Alabama was among five U.S. troops killed in a reported ambush in Iraq, according to his family.

Jonathan Millican, a 2005 graduate of Locust Fork High School, died in the attack along with three other soldiers and a Marine, the soldier's father, Mitchell Millican, told Birmingham television station WBRC.

"Our hearts go out to their families," the father said.

Millican, a member of an airborne artillery brigade, had been in Iraq about three months. The former high school football player was based at Fort Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, where his wife lives.

On his personal page on the MySpace.com social networking site, Millican left the message: "You don't have to love the war but you have to love the warrior."

Army Pvt. Johnathon M. Millican was killed in action on 1/20/07.