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Shreveport Times -- The tragedy of war touched down in Bossier City on Saturday, taking the youngest sibling and child from a family.

Sgt. Julia Atkins, 22, died Saturday when a roadside bomb detonated near her military vehicle in Iraq, the Department of Defense confirmed Monday

"I'm kind of hurt but I'm also proud of my sister because she was serving her country, and my family feels the same way," her only brother, Larry Thomas, said Monday.

Military officials notified next-of-kin Saturday.

"They notified my dad and told him that she was leaving out of the compound in Baghdad, she was the lead vehicle. And they said she ran over a mine," Thomas, 25, said.

The soldier was the youngest of four children whose mother died when Atkins was 12 years old.

Atkins joined the Army shortly after getting her GED, in part because of a family history of military service.

"I was in the (1/156th Armor Battalion) and when I came from basic training, she said she was joining the military. But she went active duty instead. My brother-in-law just left Iraq and my step-father is prior military," her brother said.

Atkins was a military police officer on her second tour of duty in the war. She was scheduled to leave Iraq in February and was planning to leave the Army and go to college.

Funeral arrangements are pending. Atkins' body has been flown to a military morgue at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and should be released once an autopsy is completed.
 

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Julia Atkins
Authored by: anonymous on Thursday, December 15 2005 @ 04:05 PM EST
TO THE ATKINS FAMILY FROM THE WAHL FAMILY. DEEPLY SADDEN BY THE NEWS OF JULIA. MY HEART AND PRAYS AREW ITHJULIA AND YOUR FAMILY. OUR FAMILY UNDERSTANDS THE LOST. IT IS SO PROFOUNDED. JULIA WILL ALAWYS SHINE IN YOUR HEARTS! FROM HER SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY. ONLY CONFIRMS SHE GOT THE DIRECTION FROM VERY LOVING FAMILY. JULIA THANK YOU FOR SERVING OUR COUNTRY. MY TEARS STOPPED TODY BRIEFLY. AN NOW THOSE TEARS ARE YOUR'S. LIKE LOSING A DAUGHTER, I WISH I HAD BUT NEVER HAD. JULIA WAS SPECIAL, AN AMERICAN HERO. WE NEED TO REACH OUT TO HER COMMUNITY AND POLTICAL LEADERS TODAY. REQUEST A STREET BE NAMED AFTER HER. SO NO ONE WILL EVER FORGET HER. GOD BLESS!
Julia Atkins
Authored by: anonymous on Friday, December 16 2005 @ 03:08 PM EST
May God be with the family of Julia Atkins. Thank you Julia for a job well done.

A Texas Family
Julia Atkins
Authored by: anonymous on Friday, January 06 2006 @ 11:17 PM EST
Julia,
I would like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for our Country. And to your family, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

A grateful citizen

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