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Joshua L Knowles
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Name: Army Spc. Joshua L. Knowles
Age: 23
From: Sheffield, Iowa
Assigned to the 1133rd Transportation Company, Army National Guard, Mason City, Iowa
Incident: Army Spc. Joshua L. Knowles was killed Feb. 5 when he was hit by a mortar round at a Baghdad International Airport checkpoint.
Died: February 05, 2004
Family, friends bury slain Iowa soldier
By Ryan J. Foley
Associated Press
Age: 23
From: Sheffield, Iowa
Assigned to the 1133rd Transportation Company, Army National Guard, Mason City, Iowa
Incident: Army Spc. Joshua L. Knowles was killed Feb. 5 when he was hit by a mortar round at a Baghdad International Airport checkpoint.
Died: February 05, 2004
Family, friends bury slain Iowa soldier
By Ryan J. Foley
Associated Press
ROCKWELL, Iowa — At a solemn Valentine’s Day funeral, friends and family remembered an Iowa soldier killed in Iraq as a fun-loving man who found his calling in the military.
Spc. Joshua Lincoln Knowles, 23, “discovered his true love of God and country” during his time in the National Guard, which he joined as he graduated high school in 1999, the Rev. Dennis Cahill said at the funeral.
Knowles’ service ended Feb. 5, when a mortar round struck the military truck he was driving at a checkpoint near the Baghdad International Airport. He was killed — the tenth Iowan to die in Iraq — and a passenger was injured.
On Saturday, more than 300 family...
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the 1133rd Transportation Company, Army National Guard, Mason City, Iowa
Incident
Army Spc. Joshua L. Knowles was killed Feb. 5 when he was hit by a mortar round at a Baghdad International Airport checkpoint.
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Joshua L Knowles
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.