Joshua R. Anderson
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Age: 24
From: Jordan, Minn.
Assigned to the 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Incident: Army Spc. Joshua R. Anderson died Jan. 3 in Kamasiyah, Iraq, of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.
Died: January 03, 2008
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Soldier from Jordan, Minn., killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — A 24-year-old soldier who went into the Army because he wanted to help others was killed earlier this week when an explosive detonated near his vehicle in Iraq.
Pfc. Joshua R. Anderson died Wednesday in Kamasia, the Department of Defense said Friday.
Anderson was assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division out of Fort Stewart, Ga., and had been living near there with his wife, Hannah, and the couple’s 3-year-old daughter.
He grew up in Jordan, Minn., said his mother, Lynn.
“He was always loving and caring and he had a quick smile and helping hand,” Lynn Anderson said. “He’d give you the shirt off his back.”
Anderson, who was a combat medic in the Army, is the 68th person with strong Minnesota ties to have died in connection with the wars in Iraq and...