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Joseph M. Tackett
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Name: Army Sgt. Joseph M. Tackett
Age: 22
From: Whitehouse, Ky.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 76th Field Artillery, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Incident: Army Sgt. Joseph M. Tackett died June 23 of a non-combat-related injury in Baghdad.
Died: June 23, 2005
Kentucky soldier dies of non-combat injury in Iraq
By Betsy Vereckey
Associated Press
Age: 22
From: Whitehouse, Ky.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 76th Field Artillery, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Incident: Army Sgt. Joseph M. Tackett died June 23 of a non-combat-related injury in Baghdad.
Died: June 23, 2005
Kentucky soldier dies of non-combat injury in Iraq
By Betsy Vereckey
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The mother of a soldier from eastern Kentucky who died in Iraq said her son was fulfilling a lifelong dream to see the world.
Sgt. Joseph M. Tackett, 22, died Thursday in Baghdad of a non-combat related injury, Pentagon officials said.
Tackett’s mother, Kathy, said she was visited by a military representative Thursday evening, who said Tackett had been shot. She said she was told that no more details were available until an investigation had been completed.
Joseph Tackett often wrote e-mails to his mother in Whitehouse, Ky., where he was born and raised, telling her of the new and exciting things he was doing every day.
“He told me at one point that he was standing in a mosque and said, ‘There’s not many people who’ve ever done this, Mom,”’ Kathy Tackett said in a telephone interview on...
Occupation
the 1st Battalion, 76th Field Artillery, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
Incident
Army Sgt. Joseph M. Tackett died June 23 of a non-combat-related injury in Baghdad.
Prayers & Messages
Joseph M. Tackett
2014-01-05
Joe I still think about you every day. I miss u
A.L.W.
Joseph M. Tackett
2011-04-28
miss you still joe!
Joseph M. Tackett
2008-06-07
Thank you so much for patriotism, love of our country and the ultimate sacrifice you have made. May your family and friends find comfort in their memories of you. You will never be forgotten. Rest in peace.
SGT Tackett
2005-07-23
Tackett Family...
From the Families of the 3rd ID A 1/76...Alpha Dawgs...they will make him proud...Joe was loved and will be missed!!!
He is a true hero!!!
From the Families of the 3rd ID A 1/76...Alpha Dawgs...they will make him proud...Joe was loved and will be missed!!!
He is a true hero!!!
joe's family
2005-07-01
a boy left your home but a man came back
filled with dreams and pride for what he believed in
he touched so many lives and changed so many too, he leaves this earth as a hero
he now watches over us to help in our time of need, he will never be forgotten for he lives on in each of us
when all the saddens passes we will think of joe and smile, remember his dreams and remember the boy of yesterday and the man of today
filled with dreams and pride for what he believed in
he touched so many lives and changed so many too, he leaves this earth as a hero
he now watches over us to help in our time of need, he will never be forgotten for he lives on in each of us
when all the saddens passes we will think of joe and smile, remember his dreams and remember the boy of yesterday and the man of today
Army Sgt. Joseph M. Tackett and loved ones
2005-06-29
Dear Joseph,
I am always filled with mixed feelings when I see a soldier lost to non-combat related situations. But then I realize that God called you home without all the trauma...It is just a natural death. Thank you so much for your committment to our country and the world. I am so glad you did not have to face the ugliness of this war. You died as you probably would have here at home. God comfort your family and friends in that knowledge. Yours was a natural death...in a situation where you were doing what you believed in.
I hate this war though.
THANK YOU!
Mary
I am always filled with mixed feelings when I see a soldier lost to non-combat related situations. But then I realize that God called you home without all the trauma...It is just a natural death. Thank you so much for your committment to our country and the world. I am so glad you did not have to face the ugliness of this war. You died as you probably would have here at home. God comfort your family and friends in that knowledge. Yours was a natural death...in a situation where you were doing what you believed in.
I hate this war though.
THANK YOU!
Mary
prayers
2005-06-28
than you for your service, thank you for our freedom. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. GODS PEACE TO YOU NOW.
Joseph Tackett
2005-06-28
Freedom Isn't Free
I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze
A young soldier saluted it, and then
He stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many Pilots' planes shot down?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No Freedom isn't free
I heard the sound of taps one night,
When everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That taps had meant "Amen"
When a flag had draped a coffin
of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard at the
bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.....
No -- Freedom isn't free!!
...Cadet Major Kelly Strong
Air Force Junior ROTC
I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze
A young soldier saluted it, and then
He stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers' tears?
How many Pilots' planes shot down?
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No Freedom isn't free
I heard the sound of taps one night,
When everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That taps had meant "Amen"
When a flag had draped a coffin
of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard at the
bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.....
No -- Freedom isn't free!!
...Cadet Major Kelly Strong
Air Force Junior ROTC